Changes of species richness pattern in mountain grasslands: Abandonment versus restoration

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3241-3253

  Galvánek, Dobromil ^a   Lepš, Jan ^b,c  

^a DAPHNE R Institute of Applied Ecology   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Grassland restoration; Mountain grassland; Slovakia; Species richness; Western Carpathians

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT RESTORATION; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; MOWING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; VEGETATION TYPE;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 55149092535     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9424-2     Document Type: Article

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