Set-aside management: How do succession, sowing patterns and landscape context affect biodiversity?

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-44

  Tscharntke, Teja ^a   Batáry, Péter ^a   Dormann, Carsten F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biological control; Conservation efficiency; Ecosystem service; Fallows; Landscape complexity; Pollination; Seed mixture

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARABLE LAND; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIRD; DOMINANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPHEMERAL LAKE; EUROPEAN UNION; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT TYPE; INSECT; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LANDSCAPE; MAMMAL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLICY MAKING; POLLINATION; SEED; SEED BANK; SOWING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; WEED;

AVES; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80052755523     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2010.11.025     Document Type: Review

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