Landscape perspectives on agricultural intensification and biodiversity - Ecosystem service management

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 857-874

  Tscharntke, Teja ^a   Klein, Alexandra M ^a   Kruess, Andreas ^a   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^a   Thies, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agri environment schemes; Biological control; Dispersal; Ecosystem functioning; Land use systems; Pollination; Resilience; Spatial scale; Sustainability; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LAND USE; POLLINATION;

EID: 22544487542     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00782.x     Document Type: Review

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