Biodiversity and ecosystem trajectories: First results from a new LTER in southern France

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 285-293

  Le Floc'h, Edouard ^a   Aronson, James ^a   Dhillion, Shivcharn ^b   Guillerm, Jean Louis ^a   Grossmann, Anna ^a   Cunge, Étienne ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem attributes; Land use history; Landscape; LTER; Mediterranean; Transects

Indexed keywords

BASELINE CONDITIONS; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN;

(SOUTH); FRANCE;

EID: 0032078467     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1146-609X(98)80032-5     Document Type: Article

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