Effects of land-use history and the contemporary landscape on non-native plant invasion at local and regional scales in the forest-dominated southern Appalachians

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1433-1445

  Kuhman, Timothy R ^a   Pearson, Scott M ^b   Turner, Monica G ^c  

^a EDGEWOOD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MARS HILL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue Ridge; Celastrus orbiculatus; City center; Dioscorea oppositifolia; Exotic species; Ligustrum sinense; Lonicera japonica; Microstegium vimineum; Roads; Rosa multiflora

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASS; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LINEARITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REFORESTATION; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOPOGRAPHY; TUBER; VINE; WATERSHED;

APPALACHIANS; BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

CELASTRUS; CELASTRUS ORBICULATUS; DIOSCOREA ALATA; DIOSCOREA POLYSTACHYA; LIGUSTRUM; LIGUSTRUM SINENSE; LONICERA JAPONICA; MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM; ROSA MULTIFLORA;

EID: 77956871885     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9500-3     Document Type: Article

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