Invasion biology and conservation biology: Time to join forces to explore the links between species traits and extinction risk and invasiveness

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 447-450

  van Kleunen, Mark ^a,c   Richardson, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION RISK; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

EID: 34848857000     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133307081295     Document Type: Article

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