Slow response of plant species richness to habitat loss and fragmentation

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 72-77

  Helm, Aveliina ^a   Hanski, Ilkka ^b   Pärtel, Meelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Extinction debt; Fragmentation; Grassland plants; Metapopulation dynamics; Species richness; Species area relationship; Transient time

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ESTONIA; GENETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ECOSYSTEM; ESTONIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANTS; TIME FACTORS;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33644952211     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00841.x     Document Type: Article

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