Greater focus needed on alien plant impacts in protected areas

Conservation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 459-466

  Hulme, Philip E ^a   Pyšek, Petr ^b,c,d   Pergl, Jan ^b   Jarošík, Vojtěch ^b,c   Schaffner, Urs ^e   Vilà, Montserrat ^f  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e CABI   (Switzerland)

^f DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Community structure; Exotic species; Fire; Macroecology; National parks; Nature reserves; Plant conservation; Soil processes; Weeds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903213712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12061     Document Type: Article

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