Restricted plant species on sub-Antarctic Macquarie and Heard Islands

Polar Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 532-539

  Bergstrom, Dana M ^a   Turner, Perpetua A M ^a,b   Scott, Jenny ^b   Copson, Geoff ^c   Shaw, Justine ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c Nature Conservation Branch   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carex; Climate change; Colonisation; Establishment; Grazing; Poa; Ranunculus

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAZING PRESSURE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR PLANT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; HEARD ISLAND; HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MACQUARIE ISLAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CAREX TRIFIDA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; POA; POA LITOROSA; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS CRASSIPES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33745685021     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-005-0085-2     Document Type: Article

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