Rates of species introduction to a remote oceanic island

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1519, 2003, Pages 1091-1098

  Gaston, Kevin J ^a   Jones, Alex G ^a,c   Hänel, Christine ^b   Chown, Steven L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alien species; Gough Island; Homogenization; Introductions; Island biogeography; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

INSECT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BLATTODEA; COLEOPTERA; FLY; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LEPIDOPTERA; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOCOPTERA; PTERYGOTE; SPECIES INTRODUCTION; THYSANOPTERA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GOUGH ISLAND;

ARACHNIDA; BLATTARIA; COLEOPTERA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PSOCOPTERA; THYSANOPTERA;

EID: 0037853407     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2332     Document Type: Article

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