Insights from community ecology into the role of enemy release in causing invasion success: the
importance of native enemy effects
Biological Invasions
Kirsten M. Prior1, Thomas H.Q. Powell, Ashley L. Joseph, Jessica J. Hellmann
Corresponding Author1: University of Florida; priorkm@gmail.com
Electronic Supplementary Material 2: Studies used in meta-analysis
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