Distance decay of similarity among European urban floras: The impact of anthropogenic activities on β diversity

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 363-371

  La Sorte, Frank A ^a   Mckinney, Michael L ^b   Pyšek, Petr ^c,d   Klotz, Stefan ^e,f   Rapson, G L ^g   Celesti Grapow, Laura ^h   Thompson, Ken ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^f Virtual Institute for Macroecology   (Germany)

^g MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^h SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic activities; Archaeophyte; Beta diversity; Biotic homogenization; Compositional similarity; Distance decay; Europe; Neophyte; Non native species; Urban floras

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; FLORA; HUMAN ACTIVITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 42149148778     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00369.x     Document Type: Article

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