Woody species as landscape modulators and their effect on biodiversity patterns

BioScience

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 209-221

  Shachak, Moshe ^a   Boeken, Bertrand ^a   Groner, Elli ^a   Kadmon, Ronen ^b   Lubin, Yael ^a   Meron, Ehud ^a   Ne'eman, Gidi ^c   Perevolotsky, Avi ^a,d   Shkedy, Yehoshua ^e   Ungar, Eugene David ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^e Israel Nature and Parks Authority and Israel Electric Corporation

Author keywords

Assemblage similarity; Biodiversity cycling; Ecosystem engineer; Pattern formation; Resource contrast

Indexed keywords

EID: 41649111297     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/B580307     Document Type: Article

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