Biodiversity and land use change on the Causse Méjan, France

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2611-2626

  O'Rourke, Eileen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Biodiversity; Causse M jan; Complexity; Land use change; Resilience; Social ecological system

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BIODIVERSITY; LAND USE CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

CAUSSE MEJEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; GRANDS CAUSSES; LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON; LOZERE; MASSIF CENTRAL; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749637504     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-5402-0     Document Type: Article

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