Trees and shrubs as invasive alien species - 2013 update of the global database

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1093-1094

  Rejmánek, Marcel ^a   Richardson, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Global database; Regions of origin; Shrub invasion; Tree invasion

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DATABASE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE;

EID: 84880131544     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12075     Document Type: Article

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