Surrogate taxa for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes of eastern Austria

Biological Conservation

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 181-190

  Sauberer, Norbert ^a   Zulka, Klaus Peter ^b   Abensperg Traun, Max ^b   Berg, Hans Martin ^c   Bieringer, Georg ^a   Milasowszky, Norbert ^b   Moser, Dietmar ^a   Plutzar, Christoph ^a   Pollheimer, Martin ^d   Storch, Christiane ^a   Tröstl, Renate ^a   Zechmeister, Harald ^a   Grabherr, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM WIEN   (Austria)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscapes; Biodiversity indicators; Birds; Complementarity; Invertebrates; Landscape scale; Plants

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; INVERTEBRATE; PLANT;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ARANEAE; AVES; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; GASTROPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA; TRACHEOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10744225221     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00291-X     Document Type: Article

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