Comparative patterns of plant invasions in the Mediterranean biome.

The objective of this work was to compare and contrast the patterns of alien plant invasions in the world's five mediterranean-climate regions (MCRs). We expected landscape age and disturbance history to have bearing on levels of invasion. We assembled a database on naturalized alien plant taxa...

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Main Authors: Margarita Arianoutsou, Pinelopi Delipetrou, Montserrat Vilà, Panayiotis G Dimitrakopoulos, Laura Celesti-Grapow, Grant Wardell-Johnson, Lesley Henderson, Nicol Fuentes, Eduardo Ugarte-Mendes, Philip W Rundel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3828305?pdf=render