Human activity facilitates altitudinal expansion of exotic plants along a road in montane grassland, South Africa

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 491-498

  Kalwij, Jesse M ^a   Robertson, Mark P ^b   Van Rensburg, Berndt J ^a,b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alien; Dispersal; Disturbance; Gradient analysis; Grassland; Multivariate; Spatial analysis; Transect

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249153051     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3170/2008-7-18555     Document Type: Article

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