Testing the value of six taxonomic groups as biodiversity indicators at a local scale

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 667-675

  Kati, Vassiliki ^a   Devillers, Pierre ^b   Dufrêne, Marc ^c   Legakis, Anastasios ^d   Vokou, Despina ^e   Lebrun, Philippe ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^c Centre de Recherche de la Nature   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biomonitoring; Indicators; Mediterranean; Reserve

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODY PLANT;

DADIA FOREST RESERVE; EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EURASIA; EUROPE; EVROS; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; ORCHIDACEAE; ORTHOPTERA;

EID: 2542435131     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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