Distribution of alien vs. native plant species in roadside communities along an altitudinal gradient in Tenerife and Gran Canaria (Canary Islands)

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 185-202

  Arévalo, José Ramón ^a   Delgado, Juan Domingo ^a   Otto, Rüdiger ^a   Naranjo, Agustín ^b   Salas, Marcos ^a   Fernández Palacios, José María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alien species; Altitudinal gradient; Disturbance; Invasive plants; pDCCA; Quadratic regression

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; INVASIBILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; MACARONESIA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

EID: 33644593765     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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