Nestedness as a conservation tool: Plants and birds of oak-hazel woodland in Sweden

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 142-145

  Hansson, Lennart ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Birds; Conservation; Edge effects; Habitat structure; Landscape; Nestedness; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

AVES; CORYLUS AMERICANA; QUERCUS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0000637879     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00031.x     Document Type: Article

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