Are mangroves in the tropical Atlantic ripe for invasion? Exotic mangrove trees in the forests of South Florida

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2509-2522

  Fourqurean, James W ^a,b   Smith III, Thomas J ^c   Possley, Jennifer ^b   Collins, Timothy M ^a,d   Lee, David ^a   Namoff, Sandra ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Center for Tropical Plant Conservation   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Botanic gardens; Bruguiera; Forest structure; Lumnitzera; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DICOTYLEDON; GARDEN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANGROVE; POPULATION GROWTH; RANGE EXPANSION; SHORELINE; STAND STRUCTURE; TAXONOMY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA GERMINANS; BRUGUIERA; BRUGUIERA GYMNORHIZA; CONOCARPUS ERECTUS; LAGUNCULARIA RACEMOSA; LUMNITZERA; LUMNITZERA RACEMOSA; RHIZOPHORA MANGLE; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 77954456171     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9660-8     Document Type: Article

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