The fate of alien conifers in long-term plantings in the USA

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 456-466

  Mortenson, Susan G ^a,b   Mack, Richard N ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alien conifers; Biological invasions; Forest plantations; Invader; Pinus sylvestris; Pinus thunbergii

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ENDEMIC SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; MORTALITY; NATURALIZATION; PLANTATION; REGENERATION;

CEDAR CREEK; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; IDAHO; KENTUCKY; MARTHA'S VINEYARD; MASSACHUSETTS; MINNESOTA; NANTUCKET; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WIND RIVER; WYOMING;

ABIES; ABIES VEITCHII; BURSAPHELENCHUS XYLOPHILUS; CONIFEROPHYTA; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS DENSIFLORA; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PINUS MUGO; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PINUS THUNBERGII;

EID: 33745699219     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00274.x     Document Type: Article

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