Predicting Future Threats to the Native Vegetation of Robinson Crusoe Island, Juan Fernandez Archipelago, Chile

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1650-1659

  Dirnböck, Thomas ^a,c   Greimler, Josef ^a   Lopez S , Patricio ^b   Stuessy, Tod F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^c ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Endemic flora; Habitat distribution models; Invasive plants; Islands; Logistic regression; Predictive modeling; Vegetation data

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; NATURE RESERVE; PREDICTION; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION; VEGETATION;

JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ACAENA; ACAENA ARGENTEA; ARISTOTELIA; ARISTOTELIA CHILENSIS; RUBUS; RUBUS ULMIFOLIUS; UGNI MOLINAE;

EID: 0346973313     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00173.x     Document Type: Article

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