Naturalized and invasive alien flora of Ghana

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F19%3A00509726" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/19:00509726 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/19:10408781
Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0301621" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0301621</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-018-1860-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10530-018-1860-7</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Naturalized and invasive alien flora of Ghana
Original language description
The paper provides an inventory of the naturalized vascular flora of Ghana, based on newly gathered information from the literature and consultations with local experts. We recorded 291 species of naturalized alien plants, of which 25 are classified as invasive. There are 21 widely distributed species that occur in at least eight regions, and five of them are distributed all over the country: Azadirachta indica, Echinochloa colona, Leucaena leucocephala, Senna occidentalis and S. siamea. The majority of species have their native range in South and North America, contributing 161 and 127 species, respectively, but only three species have their origin in Europe. The numbers of naturalized species in the administrative regions of Ghana varied from 34 in Upper West to 173 in Greater Accra. These numbers increased with human population density and decreased with distance from the sea, but this pattern was driven by the city of Accra region. The only predictor that remained significant after removing this outlier was the amount of precipitation in the dry period, which was positively associated with the regional richness of naturalized species.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GB14-36079G" target="_blank" >GB14-36079G: Plant diversity analysis and synthesis centre (PLADIAS)</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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