Invasive alien plants in marine protected areas: The Spartina anglica affair in the European Wadden Sea

Biological Invasions

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 937-950

  Nehring, Stefan ^a   Hesse, Karl Jürgen ^b  

^a AeT Umweltplanung   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black list; Climate change; Europe; Impacts; North Sea; Protected area; Spartina anglica; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACCRETION; BIODIVERSITY; COLONIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GLOBAL WARMING; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARINE PARK; SALTMARSH; SEAGRASS; TIDAL FLAT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

SPARTINA ANGLICA;

EID: 46649100256     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9244-z     Document Type: Article

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