Taxonomic homogenization of woodland plant communities over 70 years

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1672, 2009, Pages 3539-3544

  Keith, Sally A ^a   Newton, Adrian C ^a   Morecroft, Michael D ^b   Bealey, Clive E ^b   Bullock, James M ^c  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biotic homogenization; Conservation; Environmental change

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA SET; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; TAXONOMY; TURNOVER; VASCULAR PLANT; WOODLAND;

AGED; ARTICLE; EUTROPHICATION; FOREST; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT TAXONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; VASCULAR PLANT;

DORSET [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

EID: 70349624588     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0938     Document Type: Article

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