What determines the impact of alien birds and mammals in Europe?

Biological Invasions

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 785-797

  Kumschick, Sabrina ^a,b   Bacher, Sven ^c   Blackburn, Tim M ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bird; Clutch size; Diet breadth; Exotic; Habitat breadth; Invasion; Litter size; Mammal; Species traits

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; BODY MASS; CLUTCH SIZE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GENERALIST; INVASIVE SPECIES; LITTER SIZE; MAMMAL; NICHE BREADTH;

EUROPE;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84874950436     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0326-6     Document Type: Article

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