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Human population density explains alien species richness in protected areas

2013-03-01

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Understanding the drivers of biological invasions, across taxa and regions, is important for designing appropriate management interventions. However there has been no work that has examined potential drivers of both plant and animal invasions, for both species considered to be aliens and those that are invasive. We use South Africa’s national park system (19 national parks, throughout South Africa and covering ∼39...

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Literature Corpus work: 790382c4-9037-5774-b61d-43eeae065916
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.11.022

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