The dark side of facilitation: native shrubs facilitate exotic annuals more strongly than native annuals

Positive interactions enhance biodiversity and ecosystem function, but can also exacerbate biological invasions. Facilitation of exotic invaders by exotic foundation species (invasional meltdown) has been studied extensively, but facilitation of exotic invaders by native foundation...

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Main Authors: Jacob E. Lucero, Taylor Noble, Stephanie Haas, Michael Westphal, H. Scott Butterfield, Christopher J. Lortie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-04-01
Series:NeoBiota
Online Access:https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/33771/download/pdf/