Environmental filtering of agroforestry systems reduces the risk of biological invasion

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 279-289

  Ramos, Nina Celli ^a   Gastauer, Markus ^b   de Almeida Campos Cordeiro, Anaïs ^a   Meira Neto, João Augusto Alves ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b Center of Environmental Research Floresta Escola   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Buffer zones; Exotic species; Nearest taxon index; Net relatedness index; Phylogenetic diversity; Prevention of biological invasion

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BUFFER ZONE; COEXISTENCE; COFFEE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 84928230812     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-014-9765-7     Document Type: Article

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