National-scale vegetation change across Britain; an analysis of sample-based surveillance data from the Countryside Surveys of 1990 and 1998

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-254

  Smart, S M ^a   Clarke, R T ^a   van de Poll, H M ^a   Robertson, E J ^a   Shield, E R ^a   Bunce, R G H ^b   Maskell, L C ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Condition measures; Indicators; Large scale; Monitoring; Surveillance; Vegetation survey

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; LAND COVER; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

ARTICLE; BIOTOPE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHADE; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES HABITAT; STRATIFICATION; UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0242500349     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4797(02)00177-9     Document Type: Article

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