Quantifying the role of multiple landscape-scale drivers controlling epiphyte composition and richness in a conservation priority habitat (juniper scrub)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1291-1301

  Ellis, Christopher J ^a   Coppins, Brian J ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Bioclimatic modelling; Extinction debt; Juniper; Lichens; Partial redundancy analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EPIPHYTE; EXTINCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LICHEN; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

JUNIPERUS;

EID: 67349257416     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.01.036     Document Type: Article

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