Competing conservation goals, biodiversity or ecosystem services: Element losses and species recruitment in a managed moorland-bracken model system

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1034-1047

  Marrs, R H ^a   Galtress, K ^a   Tong, C ^a,b   Cox, E S ^a   Blackbird, S J ^a   Heyes, T J ^a   Pakeman, R J ^c   Le Duc, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon stocks; Decomposition; Kyoto; Land management; Litter turnover; Model systems; Moorland; Nutrient compartmentation; Restoration; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; RESTORATION; VEGETATION; WATER CONSERVATION;

CARBON STOCKS; COMPARTMENTATION; ELEMENT CONTENTS; KYOTO; LAND MANAGEMENTS; LITTER TURNOVER; MODELLING SYSTEMS; MOORLAND; NUTRIENT COMPARTMENTATION; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVES;

NUTRIENTS;

CARBON; ELEMENT; MAGNESIUM; NITROGEN;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FERN; INVASIVE SPECIES; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LAND MANAGEMENT; LITTER; MODELING; MOORLAND; NATURE CONSERVATION;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BRACKEN FERN; CALLUNA; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; SHEEP; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURFACE SOIL; VEGETATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS; OVIS ARIES; PTERIDIUM AQUILINUM;

EID: 35348889578     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.11.011     Document Type: Article

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