Assessing the risk of potentially invasive plant species in central Europe

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 171-179

  Weber, Ewald ^a,b   Gut, Daniel ^a  

^a Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruit Growing Viticulture and Horticulture   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Environmental weeds; Invasiveness; Prediction; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEED;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 10944248311     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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