A landscape model for quantifying the trade-off between conservation needs and economic constraints in the management of a semi-natural grassland community

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 719-732

  Schröder, Boris ^a   Rudner, Michael ^a   Biedermann, Robert ^a   Kögl, Hans ^b   Kleyer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conservation management; Disturbance regimes; Dry grasslands; Landscape ecology; Prediction of community composition; Species distribution models with dynamic predictors

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MEADOW; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 40149083385     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.12.017     Document Type: Article

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