Effects of abandonment of subalpine hay meadows on plant and invertebrate diversity in Transylvania, Romania

Biological Conservation

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 261-273

  Baur, Bruno ^a   Cremene, Cristina ^b   Groza, Gheorghe ^c   Rakosy, Laszlo ^c   Schileyko, Anatoli A ^d   Baur, Anette ^a   Stoll, Peter ^a   Erhardt, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^d SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Carpathic endemic; Eastern Europe; Grassland succession; Land use change

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; INVERTEBRATE; MEADOW; PLANT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33745448897     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.04.018     Document Type: Article

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