The vulnerability of habitats to plant invasion: Disentangling the roles of propagule pressure, time and sampling effort

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 778-786

  Aikio, Sami ^a   Duncan, Richard P ^b   Hulme, Philip E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Colonization; Exotic species; Null model; Sampling bias; Spread; Urban; Weed

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HERBARIUM; PROPAGULE; SAMPLING BIAS; WEED;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84863784024     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00711.x     Document Type: Article

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