The distribution of native and exotic plants in a naturally fragmented sagebrush-steppe landscape

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1627-1640

  Bangert, Randy ^a   Huntly, Nancy ^a,b  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve; Environment; Exotic plants; Geomorphic fragmentation; Insular habitat fragments; Island biogeography theory; Kipuka; Native plants; Structural equation models; Transportation corridor

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; COLONIZATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOTORWAY; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURE RESERVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATCHINESS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SHRUB; STEPPE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA;

EID: 77952291801     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9575-4     Document Type: Article

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