Preventing establishment: An inventory of introduced plants in Puerto Villamil, Isabela Island, Galapagos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Guézou, Anne ^a   Pozo, Paola ^a   Buddenhagen, Christopher ^a,b  

^a CHARLES DARWIN RESEARCH STATION   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCONUT; NONHUMAN; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT TAXONOMY; RURAL AREA; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

COCOS NUCIFERA; DATURA INNOXIA; DATURA METEL; FURCRAEA HEXAPETALA; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA; PASPALUM VAGINATUM; SENNA ALATA; SOLANUM CAPSICOIDES;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 41949095139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001042     Document Type: Article

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