Grassland plant functional groups exhibit distinct time-lags in response to historical landscape change

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 327-338

  Koyanagi, Tomoyo ^a   Kusumoto, Yoshinobu ^a   Yamamoto, Shori ^a   Okubo, Satoru ^b   Iwasaki, Nobusuke ^a   Takeuchi, Kazuhiko ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dispersal distance; Extinction debt; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape history; Relaxation time; Semi natural grassland

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOINDICATOR; DISPERSAL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84856251934     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9979-y     Document Type: Article

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