Distribution, demography and dispersal model of spatial spread of invasive plant populations with limited data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 782-794

  Adams, Vanessa M ^a   Petty, Aaron M ^a   Douglas, Michael M ^a   Buckley, Yvonne M ^b,c   Ferdinands, Keith B ^d   Okazaki, Tomoko ^a   Ko, Dongwook W ^a,e   Setterfield, Samantha A ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Weed Management Branch   (Australia)

^e Kookmin University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biosecurity; Individual based model; Invasive plant management; Invasive plants; Spatially explicit spread; Spread model

Indexed keywords

UROCHLOA MUTICA;

EID: 84937072965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12392     Document Type: Article

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