Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species-environment relationships via agricultural land use

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 565-573

  Vellend, Mark ^a   Verheyen, Kris ^b   Flinn, Kathryn M ^c   Jacquemyn, Hans ^d   Kolb, Annette ^e   Van Calster, Hans ^d   Peterken, George ^f   Graae, Bente Jessen ^g   Bellemare, Jesse ^h   Honnay, Olivier ^d   Brunet, Jörg ⁱ   Wulf, Monika ^j   Gerhardt, Fritz ^k   Hermy, Martin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f Beechwood House   (United Kingdom)

^g UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

ⁱ Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre   (Sweden)

^j LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^k NorthWoods Stewardship Center   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ancient forest; Beta diversity; Biodiversity; Biotic homogenization; Community assembly; Forest plants; Land use history; Meta analysis; Recent forest; Species environment relationships

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LAND USE; META-ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34247179129     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01233.x     Document Type: Article

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