Recreational portage trails as corridors facilitating non-native plant invasions of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (U.S.A.)

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1653-1657

  Dickens, Sara Jo M ^a   Gerhardt, Fritz ^a   Collinge, Sharon K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Corridors; Human disturbance; Invasions; Recreation; Trails

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HABITAT CORRIDOR; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; WILDERNESS AREA;

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA; MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28344455119     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.004285.x     Document Type: Article

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