Modelling invasion for a habitat generalist and a specialist plant species

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 808-817

  Evangelista, Paul H ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a   Stohlgren, Thomas J ^b   Jarnevich, Catherine S ^b   Crall, Alycia W ^a   Norman III, John B ^a   Barnett, David T ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Ecological niche modelling; Generalist species; Invasive species; Non native species; Predictive modelling; Specialist species

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENERALIST; GRASS; INVASIVE SPECIES; MODEL TEST; NICHE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENCE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SPECIALIST;

BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; TAMARIX CHINENSIS;

EID: 49549124938     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00486.x     Document Type: Article

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