Estimating the influence of land management change on weed invasion potential using expert knowledge

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 818-831

  Smith, Carl ^a   van Klinken, Rieks D ^b   Seabrook, Leonie ^a   Mcalpine, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Biological invasions; Expert knowledge; Land management; Parkinsonia; Weed invasion potential

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; HERB; INVASIVE SPECIES; KNOWLEDGE; LAND MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; WEED;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

OVIS ARIES; PARKINSONIA; PARKINSONIA ACULEATA;

EID: 84863586423     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00871.x     Document Type: Article

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