Establishing climatic constraints shaping the distribution of alien plant species along the elevation gradient in the Alps

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 757-767

  Barni, Elena ^a   Bacaro, Giovanni ^b   Falzoi, Simone ^c   Spanna, Federico ^c   Siniscalco, Consolata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c Regione Piemonte Settore Fitosanitario   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alien plants; Climatic constraints; Elevation gradient; Generalised linear mixed model; Mountain systems; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LINEARITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WEATHER STATION;

ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 84859764202     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-012-0039-z     Document Type: Article

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