A field experiment to recreate species rich hay meadows using regional seed mixtures

Biological Conservation

Volumn 139, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 297-305

  Jongepierová, Ivana ^a   Mitchley, Jonathan ^b   Tzanopoulos, Joseph ^c  

^a Administration of the White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area   (Czech Republic)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Commercial seed mixtures; Ecological restoration; Natural regeneration

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COLONIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT LOSS; HAY; MEADOW; PROTECTED AREA; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; WHITE CARPATHIANS PROTECTED LANDSCAPE AREA;

POACEAE;

EID: 34548590596     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.07.026     Document Type: Article

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