Commercially important trees as invasive aliens - Towards spatially explicit risk assessment at a national scale

Biological Invasions

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 397-412

  Rouget, Mathieu ^a   Richardson, David M ^a   Nel, Jeanne L ^b   Van Wilgen, Brian W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acacia mearnsii; Alien tree invasions; Biological invasions; Environmental modelling; National policy; Pinus spp.; Plantation forestry; Recursive partitioning; South Africa; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; GIS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ACACIA; ACACIA MEARNSII;

EID: 0037647514     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023611713339     Document Type: Article

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