Home away from home - Objective mapping of high-risk source areas for plant introductions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 299-312

  Richardson, David M ^a   Thuiller, Wilfried ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Climate matching; Homoclime analysis; Invasive species; Niche based modelling; Prediction; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOME; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; NICHE; PLANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION MAPPING;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ALLIARIA PETIOLATA; CYTISUS; CYTISUS SCOPARIUS; GLEDITSIA; GLEDITSIA TRIACANTHOS; HERACLEUM; HERACLEUM MANTEGAZZIANUM; HIERACIUM PILOSELLA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS; PINUS CONTORTA; PRUNUS; PRUNUS SEROTINA;

EID: 34247380265     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00337.x     Document Type: Article

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