Re-creating semi-natural communities: Vacuum harvesting and hand collection of seed on calcareous grassland

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 66-76

  Stevenson, Mark J ^a,b   Ward, Lena K ^a   Pywell, Richard F ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Northmoor Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; SEED COLLECTION; VACUUM MACHINE;

EID: 0031414117     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1997.09707.x     Document Type: Article

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