Farm riparian land use and management: Driving factors and tensions between technical and ecological functions

Environmental Management

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 640-653

  Thenail, Claudine ^a   Baudry, Jacques ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Ecological functions; Farm management unit; Farm riparian land; Landscape management unit; Technical functions

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; FARM RIPARIAN LAND; LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT UNIT;

LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; AGRONOMY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DAIRYING; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EVALUATION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; FRANCE; FRESH WATER;

BRETAGNE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; NORMANDY; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 27744506204     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-0255-y     Document Type: Article

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