Local and regional abundance of exotic plant species on Mediterranean islands: Are species traits important?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-45

  Lloret, Francisco ^a   Médail, Fréderic ^b   Brundu, Giuseppe ^c   Hulme, Philip E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alien species; Biogeography; Dispersal syndrome; Island ecology; Life history traits; Macroecology; Mediterranean Basin

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ISLAND; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; DISPERSAL; GROWTH; HEIGHT; PLANT; STEM;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; CORSE; CRETE; DODECANESE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GREECE; ITALY; LESBOS; MAJORCA; MALTA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MINORCA; NORTHERN AEGEAN; RHODES; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 2142711726     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-882X.2004.00064.x     Document Type: Article

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