Historical impacts on linear habitats: The present distribution of grassland species in forest-edge vegetation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1674-1684

  Koyanagi, Tomoyo ^a   Kusumoto, Yoshinobu ^b   Yamamoto, Shori ^b   Okubo, Satoru ^a   Takeuchi, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Habitat fragmentation; Land use history; Restoration; Roadside; Satoyama landscape; Semi natural grassland

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST EDGE; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE; MOWING; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EID: 67349228456     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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