Interactive effects of landscape context constrain the effectiveness of local agri-environmental management

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 695-705

  Concepción, Elena D ^a   Díaz, Mario ^a   Kleijn, David ^b   Báldi, András ^c,d   Batáry, Péter ^e,f   Clough, Yann ^e   Gabriel, Doreen ^g   Herzog, Felix ^h   Holzschuh, Andrea ⁱ   Knop, Eva ^j   Marshall, E Jon P ^k   Tscharntke, Teja ^e   Verhulst, Jort ^b  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^g INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^h AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^k Marshall Agroecology Limited   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Bees; Birds; Field scale management; Landscape complexity; Model testing; Nonlinear effects; Plants; Species richness; Spiders

Indexed keywords

BEE; BIRD; COMPLEXITY; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LOCAL EXTINCTION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NONLINEARITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER;

EUROPE;

APOIDEA; ARANEAE; AVES;

EID: 84861717136     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02131.x     Document Type: Article

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