Restoration of plant diversity on ditch banks: Seed and site limitation in response to agri-environment schemes

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1340-1349

  Leng, X ^a   Musters, C J M ^a   de Snoo, G R ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colonization; Distance to nature reserves; Nature conservation; Plant dispersal

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; COLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NATURE CONSERVATION; NATURE RESERVE; SEED PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67349278212     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.01.019     Document Type: Article

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