Interactions between plant and insect diversity in the restoration of lowland calcareous grasslands in southern Britain

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 101-114

  Mortimer, Simon R ^a,b   Hollier, John A ^a   Brown, Valerie K ^a,b  

^a An Institute of CAB International   (United Kingdom)

^b CABI   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chalk grassland; Colonization; Conservation management; England; Festuco Brometea; Habitat creation; Mesobromion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000500480     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1479089     Document Type: Article

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