How useful are urban island ecosystems for defining invader patterns?

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 181-184

  Clergeau, Philippe ^a   Croci, Solène ^a   Jokimäki, Jukka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOSYSTEM; EXOTIC SPECIES; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; ORGANISM COLONY; SPECIES INVASION; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

EID: 13244260686     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892904001420     Document Type: Note

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