Landscape context and management regime structure plant diversity in grassland communities

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1164-1173

  Schmucki, Reto ^a   Reimark, Josefin ^a   Lindborg, Regina ^a   Cousins, Sara A O ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Dispersal; Environmental niche; Island; Meta community; Spatial heterogeneity; Species assemblage; Species coexistence; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROPAGULE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84865280783     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01988.x     Document Type: Article

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