Relative influence of local- and landscape-level habitat quality on aquatic plant diversity in shallow open-water wetlands in Alberta's boreal zone: Direct and indirect effects

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1023-1034

  Rooney, Rebecca C ^a   Bayley, Suzanne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquatic vegetation; Biodiversity; Oil sands mining; Reclamation; Spatial scale; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MINING; OIL SAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WETLAND;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 79960191298     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9629-8     Document Type: Article

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