Determinants of actual functional connectivity for calcareous grassland communities linked by rotational sheep grazing

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-209

  Rico, Yessica ^a   Boehmer, Hans Juergen ^b,c   Wagner, Helene H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colonization rates; Dispersal vector; Germany; Incidence function model; Regeneration niches; Species occupancy

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; CONNECTIVITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POLLEN; RECOLONIZATION; REGENERATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PRODUCTION; SHEEP;

BAVARIA; FRANKENWALD; GERMANY;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84856231771     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9648-5     Document Type: Article

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