Predicting plant migration rates in a changing world: The role of long-distance dispersal

American Naturalist

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 464-475

  Higgins, Steven I ^a,b   Richardson, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Fragmentation; Global change; Mixture models; Percolation theory; Pinus; Spread rates

Indexed keywords

MIGRATION; MODEL; SEED DISPERSAL;

EID: 0032987501     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303193     Document Type: Article

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