Do urban areas act as foci for the spread of alien plant species? An assessment of temporal trends in the UK

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 338-345

  Botham, M S ^a   Rothery, P ^a   Hulme, P E ^b   Hill, M O ^a   Preston, C D ^a   Roy, D B ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Archaeophytes; Biological invasions; Exotic; Land use; Neophytes; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LAND USE; NATIVE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 60349104751     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00539.x     Document Type: Article

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