Species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in dry grasslands: The effects of environment, landscape structure and competition

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 377-393

  Löbel, Swantje ^a   Dengler, Jürgen ^c   Hobohm, Carsten ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLENSBURG   (Germany)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alvar; Biodiversity; Dispersal limitation; Environmental heterogeneity; Fragmentation; Soil pH; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BRYOPHYTE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASSLAND; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LICHEN; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION COVER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; KALMAR [SWEDEN]; NORTHERN EUROPE; OLAND; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33749074827     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02806555     Document Type: Article

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