Can limiting similarity increase invasion resistance? A meta-analysis of experimental studies

Phylogenetically Poor Plant Communities Receive More Alien Species, Which More Easily Coexist with Natives

(2011) Pille Gerhold et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Experimental evidence for a phylogenetic Janzen-Connell effect in a subtropical forest

(2011) Xubing Liu et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

(2011) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Recruitment in species-rich grasslands: the effects of functional traits and propagule pressure

(2011) M. Oster et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Identifying Native Vegetation for Reducing Exotic Species during the Restoration of Desert Ecosystems

(2011) Scott R. Abella et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Biology, chance, or history? The predictable reassembly of temperate grassland communities

(2010) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional composition controls invasion success in a California serpentine grassland

(2010) David U. Hooper et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Early emergence and resource availability can competitively favour natives over a functionally similar invader

(2010) Jennifer Firn et al.   OECOLOGIA

Resistance of Native Plant Functional Groups to Invasion by Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae)

(2010) Roger L. Sheley et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A meta-analysis of trait differences between invasive and non-invasive plant species

(2009) Mark van Kleunen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Measuring the importance of competition in plant communities

(2009) Robert P. Freckleton et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Non-random recruitment of invader species in experimental grasslands

(2009) Christiane Roscher et al.   OIKOS

When Competition Does Not Matter: Grassland Diversity and Community Composition

(2008) Eric G. Lamb et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Role of species identity in plant invasions: experimental test using Imperata cylindrica

(2008) Pedram Daneshgar et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

JANZEN-CONNELL EFFECTS ARE WIDESPREAD AND STRONG ENOUGH TO MAINTAIN DIVERSITY IN GRASSLANDS

(2008) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

Functionally Similar Species Confer Greater Resistance to Invasion: Implications for Grassland Restoration

(2008) Stephen L. Young et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance

(2008) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants?

(2007) James F. Cahill et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS