Alien roadside species more easily invade alpine than lowland plant communities in a subarctic mountain ecosystem.

Effects of roads on plant communities are not well known in cold-climate mountain ecosystems, where road building and development are expected to increase in future decades. Knowledge of the sensitivity of mountain plant communities to disturbance by roads is however important for future conservatio...

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Main Authors: Jonas J Lembrechts, Ann Milbau, Ivan Nijs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24586947/pdf/?tool=EBI