Evaluating effects of habitat loss and land-use continuity on ant species richness in seminatural grassland remnants

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1150-1160

  Dauber, Jens ^a,b   Bengtsson, Jan ^b   Lenoir, Lisette ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Formicidae; Grassland restoration; Habitat fragmentation; Management continuity; Species area relationship; Traditional farming systems

Indexed keywords

ANT; GRASSLAND; HABITAT LOSS; LAND USE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWEDEN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 33746359320     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00373.x     Document Type: Article

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