Biotic homogenization at the community scale: Disentangling the roles of urbanization and plant invasion

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 738-748

  Trentanovi, Giovanni ^a,b   von der Lippe, Moritz ^a   Sitzia, Tommaso ^b   Ziechmann, Ulrike ^a   Kowarik, Ingo ^a   Cierjacks, Arne ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Beta diversity; Betula pendula; Invasive species; Robinia pseudoacacia; Urban forest

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONNECTIVITY; DECIDUOUS TREE; HOMOGENEITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL; UNDERSTORY; URBAN FORESTRY; URBANIZATION;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

BETULA PENDULA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA;

EID: 84879148556     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12028     Document Type: Article

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