The importance of traditional meadow management techniques for conservation of vascular plant species richness in Norway

Biological Conservation

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 133-139

  Myklestad, Åse ^a,b   Sætersdal, Magne ^a,c  

^a WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Complementarity based selection; Nestedness; Norway; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION; MEADOW; NESTEDNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 1842636285     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2003.07.016     Document Type: Article

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