Relative importance of management vs. design for implementation of large-scale ecological networks

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 341-353

  Bazelet, Corinna S ^a   Samways, Michael J ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bioindicators; Cluster analysis; Grasshoppers; Grassland; Mitigation; Power line servitudes; South Africa; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASSHOPPER; GRASSLAND; HABITAT LOSS; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MITIGATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

POACEAE;

EID: 79951814473     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9557-z     Document Type: Article

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