Can quarries supplement rare xeric habitats in a piedmont region? Spiders of the Blansky Les Mts, Czech Republic

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 104-114

  Tropek, Robert ^a   Konvicka, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Anthropogenous sites; Biodiversity conservation; Primary succession; Quarries; Restoration; Spiders

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIMESTONE; QUARRIES;

ANTHROPOGENOUS SITES; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION;

LAND USE;

ENDANGERED SPECIES; PIEDMONT; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; QUARRY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ARANEAE;

EID: 40149094385     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.817     Document Type: Article

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