The geography of human-mediated dispersal

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1450-1456

  Auffret, Alistair G ^a   Berg, Johan ^a   Cousins, Sara A O ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Connectivity; Conservation; Long distance dispersal; Movement ecology; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916239516     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12251     Document Type: Article

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