Ain't no mountain high enough: Plant invasions reaching new elevations

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 479-486

  Pauchard, Aníbal ^a   Kueffer, Christoph ^b   Dietz, Hansjörg ^c   Daehler, Curtis C ^b   Alexander, Jake ^a,c   Edwards, Peter J ^c   Arévalo, José Ramón ^d   Cavieres, Lohengrin A ^a   Guisan, Antoine ^e   Haider, Sylvia ^f   Jakobs, Gabi ^b   McDougall, Keith ^g   Millar, Constance I ^h   Naylor, Bridgett J ⁱ   Parks, Catherine G ⁱ   Rew, Lisa J ^j   Seipel, Tim ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

^h PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

ⁱ PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^j MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GLOBALIZATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; PROPAGULE;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; PREBLE COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350406624     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/080072     Document Type: Review

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