Assessing the level of plant invasion: A multi-scale approach based on vegetation plots

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1148-1162

  Campos, J A ^a   Biurrun, I ^a   Garcia Mijangos I ^a   Loidi, J ^a   Herrera, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alien plants; invasion level; multi scale; north Spain; vegetation plot database

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890796967     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2013.861538     Document Type: Article

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