Rapid global change: Implications for defining natives and aliens

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 305-311

  Webber, Bruce L ^a,b   Scott, John K ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Assisted migration; Climate change; Dispersal; Exotic; Introduced; Invasion; Landscape modification; Movement ecology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATIC REGION; DISPERSAL; GLOBAL CHANGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 84856787952     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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