Land ownership and other landscape-level effects on biodiversity in southern Ontario's Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve, Canada

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 743-755

  Lovett Doust, Jon ^a   Kuntz, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

biodiversity; conservation; land management; landscape ecology; Niagara Escarpment ownership

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDOWNERSHIP;

CANADA; NIAGARA ESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE RESERVE; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0345104814     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014416900653     Document Type: Article

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