Modeling population dynamics, landscape structure, and management decisions for controlling the spread of invasive plants

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1249, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 72-83

  Caplat, Paul ^a   Coutts, Shaun ^b   Buckley, Yvonne M ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exotic species; Integrodifference equation; Landscape; Network theory; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INVASIVE PLANT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT HEIGHT; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84857473508     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06313.x     Document Type: Article

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