Species attributes and invasion success by alien plants on Mediterranean islands
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FRANCISCO LLORET, FRÉDÉRIC MÉDAIL*, GIUSEPPE BRUNDU†, IGNAZIO CAMARDA†, EVA MORAGUES‡, JUAN RITA§, PHILIP LAMBDON¶ and PHILIP E. HULME¶ Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) and U. Ecologia, Department Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Fac. Ciències, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain, * Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie et de Paléoécologie (IMEP, CNRS UMR 6116), Université Paul Cézanne/AixMarseille III, Europôle Méditerranéen de l’Arbois, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex 04, France, † Dipartimento di Botanica ed Ecologia vegetale, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via F. Muroni 25, 07100 Sassari, Italy, ‡ Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), c. Miquel Marqués 21, 07190 Esporles, Majorca, Spain, § Departamento de Biología, Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Ctra Valldemossa km 7, 5. 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Majorca, Spain, and ¶ NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Banchory, Aberdeenshire AB31 4BW, Great Britain
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