Roads as conduits for exotic plant invasions in a semiarid landscape

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 420-432

  Gelbard, Jonathan L ^a,c   Belnap, Jayne ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; PLANT COMMUNITY; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SEMIARID REGION;

UNITED STATES;

BROMUS TECTORUM;

EID: 0037811063     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01408.x     Document Type: Article

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