Small, dynamic and recently settled: Responding to the impacts of plant invasions in the New Zealand (aotearoa) archipelago

Plant Invasions in Protected Areas: Patterns, Problems and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 285-311

  West, Carol J ^a   Thompson, Ann M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Eradication; Fiordland national park; Hen and chicken Islands; Raoul Island; Seed bank; Seed dormancy; Zero density

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929195424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7750-7_14     Document Type: Chapter

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