Habitat loss of floodplain meadows in north Germany since the 1950s

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2347-2364

  Krause, Benjamin ^a   Culmsee, Heike ^a   Wesche, Karsten ^b   Bergmeier, Erwin ^a   Leuschner, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Land use change; Land use history; Landscape fragmentation; Nature conservation; Vegetation mapping

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DRAINAGE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FIELD SURVEY; FLOODPLAIN; GENE FLOW; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEADOW; NATURE CONSERVATION; PROTECTED AREA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION MAPPING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

GERMANY;

EID: 80052522673     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-9988-0     Document Type: Article

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