Using natural experiments in the study of alien tree invasions

Experimental Approaches to Conservation Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 180-201

  Richardson, David M ^a   Rouget, Mathieu ^a   Rejmánek, Marcel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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