Little evidence of invasion by alien conifers in Europe

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-213

  Carrillo Gavilán, María Amparo ^a   Vilà, Montserrat ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Natural enemies; Naturalization hypothesis; Phylogenetic relatedness; Propagule pressure; Tree invasions

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENTOMOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATURAL ENEMY; NATURALIZATION; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION REGULATION; RELATEDNESS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EUROPE;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 77950165115     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00648.x     Document Type: Review

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