A Unified Classification of Alien Species Based on the Magnitude of their Environmental Impacts

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Blackburn, Tim M ^a,b,c   Essl, Franz ^d   Evans, Thomas ^e   Hulme, Philip E ^f   Jeschke, Jonathan M ^g   Kühn, Ingolf ^h,i   Kumschick, Sabrina ^j   Marková, Zuzana ^k,l   Mrugała, Agata ^l   Nentwig, Wolfgang ^m   Pergl, Jan ^k   Pyšek, Petr ^k,l   Rabitsch, Wolfgang ⁿ   Ricciardi, Anthony ^o   Richardson, David M ^j   Sendek, Agnieszka ^h   Vilà, Montserrat ^p   Wilson, John R U ^j,q   Winter, Marten ⁱ   Genovesi, Piero ^r   Bacher, Sven ^s   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^h HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

ⁱ GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^j STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^k INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^l CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

ⁿ ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^o MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^p DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^q SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^r INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^s UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DATA BASE; ECOLOGY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STANDARDIZATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UNCERTAINTY; VIROLOGY;

SOIL;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT DISPERSAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84901391420     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001850     Document Type: Article

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