Habitat monitoring in Europe: A description of current practices

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3327-3339

  Lengyel, Szabolcs ^a,b   Déri, Eszter ^a   Varga, Zoltán ^a   Horváth, Roland ^a   Tóthmérész, Béla ^a   Henry, Pierre Yves ^c   Kobler, Andrej ^d   Kutnar, Lado ^d   Babij, Valerija ^e   Seliškar, Andrej ^e   Christia, Chysoula ^f   Papastergiadou, Eva ^f   Gruber, Bernd ^g   Henle, Klaus ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^e ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^g HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

2010 target; Biodiversity research; Ecosystem monitoring; Habitats directive; Nature conservation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; INTERNATIONAL LAW; MAPPING; NATIONAL PLANNING; NATURE CONSERVATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 56549084982     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9395-3     Document Type: Article

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