Humans as Long-Distance Dispersers of Rural Plant Communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Auffret, Alistair G ^a   Cousins, Sara A O ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HABITAT; HUMAN; INVASIVE SPECIES; LONG DISTANCE DISPERSAL; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM FORMS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT SEED; PROTECTED SPECIES; RARE SPECIES; RURAL AREA; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED MORPHOLOGY; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; SWEDEN;

HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEED DISPERSAL;

EID: 84877086268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062763     Document Type: Article

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