Invasional meltdown potential: Facilitation between introduced plants and mammals on French Mediterranean islands

Ecoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 248-256

  Bourgeois, Karen ^a   Suehs, Carey M ^a   Vidal, Eric ^a   Médail, Frédéric ^a  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Carpobrotus; Cuniculus; Endozoochory; Insularity; Oryctolagus; Rattus rattus; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; FACILITATION; ISLAND; SEED DISPERSAL; ZOOCHORY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

CARPOBROTUS; CARPOBROTUS EDULIS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RATTUS RATTUS;

EID: 21544471196     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/i1195-6860-12-2-248.1     Document Type: Article

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