Neophyte species richness at the landscape scale under urban sprawl and climate warming

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 928-939

  Nobis, Michael P ^a   Jaeger, Jochen A G ^b,c   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Climate warming; Global environmental change; Non analogue environment; Non native species richness; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBANIZATION; VASCULAR PLANT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 70349915886     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00610.x     Document Type: Article

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