Using a dynamic landscape model for planning the management of alien plant invasions

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1833-1848

  Higgins, S I ^a   Richardson, D M ^a   Cowling, R M ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alien plant management; Biodiversity; Biological invasions; Clearing strategy; Exotic species; Modeling, scaling up; Reserve design, decision making; Spatial modeling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING;

EID: 0033675739     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1833:UADLMF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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