Establishment success of 25 rare wetland species introduced into restored habitats is best predicted by ecological distance to source habitats

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 602-609

  Noël, Florence ^a   Prati, Daniel ^a   van Kleunen, Mark ^a   Gygax, Andreas ^a   Moser, Daniel ^a   Fischer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conservation; Ecological distance; Establishment success; Life history traits; Multi species study; Propagule pressure

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POPULATION GROWTH; PROPAGULE; RARE SPECIES; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WETLAND; WILD POPULATION;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78751585073     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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