TY - JOUR
TI - Factors shaping alien plant species richness spatial patterns across Natura 2000 Special Areas of Conservation of Greece
AU - Dimitrakopoulos, P.G.
AU - Koukoulas, S.
AU - Galanidis, A.
AU - Delipetrou, P.
AU - Gounaridis, D.
AU - Touloumi, K.
AU - Arianoutsou, M.
JO - The Science of the Total Environment
PY - 2017
VL - 601-602
TODO - null
SP - 461-468
PB - Elsevier B.V.
SN - 0048-9697
TODO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.220
TODO - Environmental protection;  Forestry;  Population distribution;  Population dynamics;  Population statistics, Biological invasion;  Generalised additive models;  Native species;  Protected areas;  Regional scale, Conservation, biological invasion;  environmental factor;  introduced species;  native species;  numerical model;  plant;  protected area;  spatial variation;  species occurrence;  species richness, alien plant species;  Article;  binomial distribution;  controlled study;  data base;  distance;  environmental protection;  Greece;  hydrography;  location scale;  native plant species;  nonhuman;  physical parameters;  plant;  population density;  pressure;  priority journal;  shape;  slope;  spatial analysis;  species richness;  topography;  biodiversity;  ecosystem;  environmental monitoring;  introduced species;  population dynamics, Greece, Biodiversity;  Conservation of Natural Resources;  Ecosystem;  Environmental Monitoring;  Greece;  Introduced Species;  Plants;  Population Dynamics
TODO - This paper aims to determine the main factors that shape the spatial patterns of alien plant species occurrence across Natura 2000 Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) in Greece, and quantify their influence. A series of spatial analysis techniques for the development of a spatial database of the factors involved, followed by a boosted negative binomial Generalised Additive Model for location scale and shape, were implemented. Native plant species richness, topography and hydrography, human population density, and a spatial preference to the northern-western sites are the key factors that explain the variation in the occurrence of alien plant species. Native plant species richness and human population density have a positive effect on alien plant species presence, while topography aspects, such as elevation and slope, and the distance from the hydrographical network a negative one. All factors are indirectly linked to propagule pressure emphasizing the importance of human activities for the efforts on managing protected areas. © 2017 Elsevier B.V.
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