Habitat change and plant demography: Assessing the extinction risk of a formerly common grassland perennial

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 174-183

  Schleuning, Matthias ^a,b   Matthies, Diethart ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experimental demography; Extinction debt; Grassland management; LTRE analysis; Population dynamics; Population viability analysis; Stochastic matrix model; Trifolium montanum

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION RISK; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT STRUCTURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; CLOVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GERMANY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GERMANY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TRIFOLIUM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM MONTANUM;

EID: 58249139799     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01054.x     Document Type: Article

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