Selection for commercial forestry determines global patterns of alien conifer invasions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 911-921

  Essl, Franz ^a,b   Moser, Dietmar ^b   Dullinger, Stefan ^c,d   Mang, Thomas ^c,d   Hulme, Philip E ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Cupressaceae; Forestry; Global patterns; Pinaceae; Propagule pressure

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FORESTRY PRACTICE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; INVASIVE SPECIES; PROBABILITY; PROPAGULE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

AFRICA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSACEAE; PINACEAE;

EID: 77958594143     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00705.x     Document Type: Article

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