Reinforced Traditional Management is Needed to Save a Declining Meadow Species. A Demographic Analysis

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 231-247

  Wallin, Lotta ^a,b   Svensson, Brita M ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic nitrogen; Matrix population models; Mowing; Raking; Stochastic growth rate; Succisa pratensis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MEADOW; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOCHASTICITY;

GOTLAND; SWEDEN;

SUCCISA; SUCCISA PRATENSIS;

EID: 84865820293     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12224-012-9123-3     Document Type: Article

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