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Oak Ridge Free Air CO 2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment in sweet gum forest.

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6 Oak Ridge Free Air CO 2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment in sweet gum forest

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8 FACE 1998Control 1998 Nevada Desert FACE experiment in Mojave Desert near Las Vegas

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14 Home range Introduced area Disturbed area Natural area Geographic ReproduceEnvironment Disperse Richardson et al. (2000)

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21 10 hypotheses: a)Competition hypothesis b)Escape from biotic constraints hypothesis c)BCW (allelopathy) hypothesis d)Microevolutionary change hypothesis e)Vacant niche hypothesis f)Biodiversity hypothesis g)Variable resource availability hypothesis h)Disturbance and land use hypothesis i)Environmental change hypothesis j)Anthropogenic hypothesis

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