Disentangling the relative effects of environmental versus human factors on the abundance of native and alien plant species in Mediterranean sandy shores

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 537-546

  Carboni, Marta ^a,b   Thuiller, Wilfried ^b   Izzi, Francesca ^a   Acosta, Alicia ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Coastal dunes; Diversity patterns; Environmental and human determinants; Exotic species; Inference based model

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DUNE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND COVER; MOVEMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RAINFALL; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

ITALY; LAZIO; TYRRHENIAN COAST;

EID: 77954648166     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00677.x     Document Type: Article

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