Spontaneous regeneration of dry grasslands on set-aside fields

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 621-630

  Stadler, Jutta ^a   Trefflich, Annette ^b   Brandl, Roland ^c   Klotz, Stefan ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b Philipps University of Marburg ^*  (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abandoned fields; Central Europe; Restoration; Species diversity; Succession; Time scale

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; HABITAT RESTORATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGENERATION; SHALLOW SOIL; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; SAXONY-ANHALT;

EID: 33847679739     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-0604-z     Document Type: Article

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