Additive partitioning of plant diversity with respect to grassland management regime, fertilisation and abiotic factors

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 626-634

  Klimek, Sebastian ^a   Marini, Lorenzo ^b   Hofmann, Martina ^c   Isselstein, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Saxon State Institute for Agriculture   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cutting; Diversity components; Heterogeneity; Livestock grazing; Spatial scale; Species richness

Indexed keywords

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EID: 51449107469     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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