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Environmental gradients shift the direction of the relationship between native and alien plant species richness

  1. Federico Tomasetto*,
  2. Richard P. Duncan,
  3. Philip E. Hulme

Article first published online: 4 JUL 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00939.x

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Diversity and Distributions

Volume 19, Issue 1, pages 49–59, January 2013

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Tomasetto, F., Duncan, R. P. and Hulme, P. E. (2013), Environmental gradients shift the direction of the relationship between native and alien plant species richness. Diversity and Distributions, 19: 49–59. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00939.x

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  1. Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand

* Correspondence: Federico Tomasetto, Bio-Protection Research Centre, PO Box 84, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, New Zealand.
E-mail: federico.tomasetto@lincoln.ac.nz

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