Plant invasions in Taiwan: Insights from the flora of casual and naturalized alien species

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 10, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 349-362

  Wu, Shan Huah ^a   Hsieh, Chang Fu ^b   Chaw, Shu Miaw ^c   Rejmánek, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Flora; History; Islands; Mode of introduction; Naturalized species; Plant invasions; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; FLORISTICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIBILITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

AMARANTHACEAE; ASTERACEAE; CONVOLVULACEAE; CROTALARIA; FABACEAE; IPOMOEA; ONAGRACEAE; POACEAE; SOLANUM;

EID: 4644296428     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2004.00121.x     Document Type: Article

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