People move but cultivated plants stay: Abandoned farmsteads support the persistence and spread of alien plants

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1289-1302

  Pándi, Ildikó ^a   Penksza, Károly ^a   Botta Dukát, Zoltán ^b   Kröel Dulay, György ^b  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Land abandonment; Land use change; Plant invasion; Rural depopulation

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; CULTIVATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FARM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; PERSISTENCE; PLANT; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WOODY PLANT;

HUNGARY;

EID: 84897427808     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0665-y     Document Type: Article

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