Small-scale experimental habitat fragmentation reduces colonization rates in species-rich grasslands

Oecologia

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 144-152

  Joshi, Jasmin ^a   Stoll, Peter ^b   Rusterholz, Hans Peter ^b   Schmid, Bernhard ^a   Dolt, Claudine ^b   Baur, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fragment size; Generalists specialists; Interaction stochasticity; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PATCH SIZE; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; JURA MOUNTAINS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33646487941     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0341-8     Document Type: Article

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