Propagule pressure as a driver of establishment success in deliberately introduced exotic species: Fact or artefact?

Biological Invasions

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1459-1469

  Blackburn, Tim M ^a,b   Prowse, Thomas A A ^c   Lockwood, Julie L ^d   Cassey, Phillip ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acclimatization Society; Establishment success; New Zealand; Passerine birds; Persistence time; Propagule pressure

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; AVIFAUNA; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DATA SET; HISTORICAL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; PASSERINE; PERSISTENCE; PROPAGULE;

NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 84879162347     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0451-x     Document Type: Article

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