Floristic homogenization as a teleconnected trend in oceanic islands

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 902-910

  Castro, Sergio A ^a,f,g   Daehler, Curtis C ^b   Silva, Luis ^c   Torres Santana, Christian W ^b   Reyes Betancort, Jorge A ^d   Atkinson, Rachel ^e   Jaramillo, Patricia ^e   Guezou, Anne ^e   Jaksic, Fabian M ^f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO CANARIO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS   (Spain)

^e Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^g CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY CEDENNA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Alien plants; Biological invasions; Biotic change; Extinction; Extirpation; Native plants; Naturalized plants

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOTIC FACTOR; FLORISTICS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HOMOGENEITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; TELEMETRY;

ASCENSION ISLAND; AZORES; CANARY ISLANDS; CAPE VERDE; PORTUGAL; SPAIN;

AVES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77958536885     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00695.x     Document Type: Article

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