Factors relating to regional and local success of exotic plant species in their new range

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 542-551

  Speek, Tanja A A ^a,b   Lotz, Lambertus A P ^a   Ozinga, Wim A ^a   Tamis, Wil L M ^c   Schaminée, Joop H J ^a,d   van der Putten, Wim H ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Database analysis; Invasive plants; Local dominance; Plant traits; Regional frequency; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOWERING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYPLOIDY;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 79953785967     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00759.x     Document Type: Article

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