Commercially cut reed as a new and sustainable habitat for the globally threatened Aquatic Warbler

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1475-1489

  Tanneberger, F ^a   Tegetmeyer, C ^a   Dylawerski, M ^b   Flade, M ^c   Joosten, H ^a  

^a Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology   (Germany)

^b Wolin National Park   (Poland)

^c Brandenburg State Agency for the Environment   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus paludicola; Agri environmental programs; Biomass use; Commercial reed beds; Long term management; Nutrient enrichment; Species conservation; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; BIOMASS; BREEDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUTROPHICATION; EXTINCTION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; REEDBED; SONGBIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

ACROCEPHALUS PALUDICOLA; AVES; CAREX ELATA; LYSIMACHIA VULGARIS; PHRAGMITES KARKA; THELYPTERIS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 67349179189     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9495-0     Document Type: Article

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