Which Factors Affect the Success or Failure of Eradication Campaigns against Alien Species?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Pluess, Therese ^a   Jarošík, Vojtěch ^b,c   Pyšek, Petr ^b,c   Cannon, Ray ^d   Pergl, Jan ^c   Breukers, Annemarie ^e   Bacher, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^d FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CHEMICAL PEST CONTROL; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL PEST CONTROL; DATA MINING; EUROPE; GREENHOUSE; HABITAT; INFESTATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; REACTION TIME; SANITATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPECIES CULTIVATION; TAXONOMY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84868122323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048157     Document Type: Article

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