Quantifying plant species diversity in a Natura 2000 network: Old ideas and new proposals

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2608-2618

  Chiarucci, Alessandro ^a   Bacaro, Giovanni ^a   Rocchini, Duccio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biodiversity assessment; Biodiversity monitoring; Conservation biology; Plant communities; Reserve network; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MONITORING; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 52149115589     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.07.024     Document Type: Article

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