Distribution of exotic plants along roads in a peninsular nature reserve

Biological Invasions

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 425-430

  Harrison, Susan ^a   Hohn, Charles ^a   Ratay, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Colonization; Grasslands; Immigration; Peninsula; Roads

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISPERSAL; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATURE RESERVE; RANGE EXPANSION; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT;

AEGILOPS; AEGILOPS TRIUNCIALIS; AVENA; AVENA FATUA;

EID: 0038661796     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023646016326     Document Type: Article

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