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Road verges facilitate exotic species’ expansion into undisturbed natural montane grasslands

2021-10-01

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QUESTIONS: How has exotic plant species richness and composition changed in and adjacent to a montane road verge over a 10‐year period? Are montane road verges conduits of exotic species’ dispersal into adjacent, undisturbed hinterland? LOCATION: Montane grassland, Maloti‐Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area, South Africa. METHODS: We surveyed road verge and adjacent hinterland transects (25 × 2 m; N = 80)...

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Literature Corpus work: 10ab7063-0cdd-52f1-a11b-d07e660a0b88
DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12615

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