Are weeds hitchhiking a ride on your car? A systematic review of seed dispersal on cars

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Ansong, Michael ^a   Pickering, Catherine ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; ECHINOCHLOA CRUS-GALLI; JUNCUS BUFONIUS; NONHUMAN; PERENNIAL RYEGRASS; PLANT SEED; PLANTAGO MAJOR; POA ANNUA; POA PRATENSIS; SAGINA PROCUMBENS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED MORPHOLOGY; SEED SIZE; SONCHUS ASPER; SONCHUS OLERACEUS; SPECIES INVASION; STELLARIA MEDIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TARAXACUM OFFICINALE; WEED; WHITE CLOVER;

BIODIVERSITY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT WEEDS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEED DISPERSAL; TRAVEL;

EID: 84893067688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080275     Document Type: Article

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