Highways as corridors and habitats for the invasive common reed Phragmites australis in Quebec, Canada

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 459-466

  Jodoin, Yvon ^a   Lavoie, Claude ^a   Villeneuve, Paul ^a   Theriault, Marius ^a   Beaulieu, Julien ^a   Belzile, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate; Invasive species; Landscape; Quebec; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Road; Wetland

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; GENOTYPE; GRASS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAIZE; PERENNIAL PLANT; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SOYBEAN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WOODLAND;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

GLYCINE MAX; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 40949108978     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01362.x     Document Type: Article

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