Long-distance dispersal research: Building a network of yellow brick roads

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-130

  Nathan, Ran ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Biological invasions; Biological transport; Complexity; Interdisciplinary research; Large scale movements; Long distance dispersal; Scale effects; Spatial ecology; Spatial spread

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; RESEARCH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 15944371948     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2005.00159.x     Document Type: Review

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