Removing an invader: Evidence for forces reassembling a Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem

Agriculture & Biology

• arid zones 7%
• Astragalus 9%
• Chihuahuan Desert 82%
• community ecology 9%
• ecosystems 43%
• Erodium cicutarium 100%
• indigenous species 12%
• plant communities 20%
• species richness 6%
• winter annuals 19%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• annual plant 40%
• arid region 9%
• community ecology 12%
• desert 47%
• ecosystem 33%
• effect 4%
• experiment 3%
• integrated approach 9%
• native species 20%
• physical environment 10%
• plant community 27%
• relative abundance 8%
• removal 30%
• removal experiment 13%
• species richness 8%
• winter 11%