Relative roles of life-form, land use and climate in recent dynamics of alien plant distributions in the British Isles

Weed Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-28

  Hulme, P E ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Archaeophyte; Biological invasion; Climate change; Exotic; Land use change; Neophyte; Weeds

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 58149394368     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2008.00658.x     Document Type: Article

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