Consistency in the habitat degree of invasion for three invasive plant species across Mediterranean islands

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2537-2548

  Affre, Laurence ^a   Suehs, Carey M ^a   Charpentier, Stéphane ^a   Vilà, Montserrat ^b   Brundu, Giuseppe ^c   Lambdon, Philip ^d   Traveset, Anna ^e   Hulme, Philip E ^f  

^a AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^f LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alien; Exotic; Habitat invasibility; Risk assessment; Species abundance; Weeds

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VULNERABILITY; WEED;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

AILANTHUS; AILANTHUS ALTISSIMA; CARPOBROTUS; OXALIS PES-CAPRAE;

EID: 77954533001     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9662-6     Document Type: Article

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