Dispersal traits determine plant response to habitat connectivity in an urban landscape

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 529-540

  Schleicher, Andrea ^a,b   Biedermann, Robert ^a   Kleyer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b ANUVA Landscape Planning   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Dispersal limitation; Habitat fragmentation; Local persistence; Model averaging; Plant functional traits; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; AUTOCORRELATION; BIODIVERSITY; CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

GERMANY;

EID: 79953113655     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9579-1     Document Type: Article

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