The role of non-native plants and vertebrates in defining patterns of compositional dissimilarity within and across continents

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 332-342

  Winter, Marten ^a,b   Kühn, Ingolf ^a   La Sorte, Frank A ^c   Schweiger, Oliver ^a   Nentwig, Wolfgang ^d   Klotz, Stefan ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Compositional dissimilarity; Europe; Non native species; North America; Vascular plants; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; NATIVE SPECIES; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT; VERTEBRATE;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

TRACHEOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77954178675     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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