Pimpinella saxifraga is maintained in road verges by mosaic management

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 899-907

  Auestad, Inger ^a   Rydgren, Knut ^a   Jongejans, Eelke ^b   Kroon, Hans de ^b  

^a WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

LTRE; Matrix modelling; Resource allocation trade offs; Semi natural grassland; Source sink populations; Vital rates

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DICOTYLEDON; GRASSLAND; GROWTH RATE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MODEL TEST; PASTURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; TRADE-OFF; VULNERABILITY;

NORWAY;

MYRRHIS ODORATA; PIMPINELLA SAXIFRAGA;

EID: 77649231608     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.12.037     Document Type: Article

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