Substratum diversity explains landscape-scale co-variation in the species-richness of bryophytes and lichens

Biological Conservation

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 405-414

  Lõhmus, Asko ^a   Lõhmus, Piret ^a   Vellak, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Cryptogam; Hemiboreal forest; Nested communities; Old growth structure; Spatial correlation

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LICHEN; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTRATE; VEGETATION TYPE;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 33846011035     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.10.015     Document Type: Article

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