Flexible dispersal strategies in native and non-native ranges: Environmental quality and the 'good-stay, bad-disperse' rule

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1024-1032

  Hui, Cang ^a   Roura Pascual, Núria ^b,c   Brotons, Lluís ^c   Robinson, Robert A ^d   Evans, Karl L ^e  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVASIVENESS; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; RANGE EXPANSION; RINGING;

SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED KINGDOM;

STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 84868301995     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07697.x     Document Type: Article

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