Ecological niche and species traits: Key drivers of regional plant invader assemblages

Biological Invasions

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1963-1980

  Thuiller, Wilfried ^a   Gassó, Núria ^b   Pino, Joan ^b   Vilà, Montserrat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alien plants; Clonal growth; Disturbance; Inference based model; Invasiveness; Life history traits; Nestedness; Niche breadth; Niche position; Range size

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLONAL GROWTH; DISTURBANCE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NESTEDNESS; NICHE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE;

SPAIN;

EID: 84865416142     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0206-0     Document Type: Article

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