Contrasting response of native and alien plant species richness to environmental energy and human impact along alpine elevation gradients

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 652-661

  Marini, Lorenzo ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b   Prosser, Filippo ^c   Hulme, Philip E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Museo Civico di Rovereto   (Italy)

^d LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biological invasion; Climate change; Disturbance; Elevation; Exotic; Homogenization; Land use change; Propagule pressure; Urbanization; Weeds

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE; TRENTO;

EID: 70350427995     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00484.x     Document Type: Article

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