Intensified grazing affects endemic plant and gastropod diversity in alpine grasslands of the Southern Carpathian mountains (Romania)

Biologia

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 438-445

  Baur, Bruno ^a   Cremene, Cristina ^a,b   Groza, Gheorghe ^c   Schileyko, Anatoli A ^d   Baur, Anette ^a   Erhardt, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^d SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alpine grassland; Biodiversity; Bucegi Mts; Fagaras Mts; Gastropoda; Grazing; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; OVIS ARIES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 50849138518     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-007-0086-4     Document Type: Article

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