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SUBMITTER: Borer ET
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1838473 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Borer Elizabeth T ET Hosseini Parviez R PR Seabloom Eric W EW Dobson Andrew P AP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070319 13
Disease may play a critical role in invasions by nonnative plants and animals that currently threaten global biodiversity. For example, a generalist viral pathogen has been recently implicated in one of the most extensive plant invasions worldwide, the invasion and domination of California's perennial grasslands by exotic annual grasses. To date, disease has never been quantitatively assessed as a cause of this invasion. Using a model with field-estimated parameters, we demonstrate that pathogen ...[more]