Predicting incursion of plant invaders into Kruger National Park, South Africa: The interplay of general drivers and species-specific factors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Jarošík, Vojtěch ^a,b   Pyšek, Petr ^a,b   Foxcroft, Llewellyn C ^c,d   Richardson, David M ^d   Rouget, Mathieu ^e   MacFadyen, Sandra ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGERATUM HOUSTONIANUM; ARGEMONE; ARGEMONE OCHROLEUCA; ARTICLE; CHROMOLAENA; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; LANTANA CAMARA; NONHUMAN; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA STRICTA; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES INVASION; XANTHIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER; SOUTH AFRICA;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83355176242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028711     Document Type: Article

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