Taxonomical and functional diversity turnover in Mediterranean grasslands: Interactions between grazing, habitat type and rainfall

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1084-1093

  Carmona, Carlos P ^a   Azcárate, Francisco M ^a   de Bello, Francesco ^b,c   Ollero, Helios S ^a   Lepš, Jan ^c   Peco, Begoña ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Conservation; Dehesa; Diversity partitioning; Functional redundancy; Grazing management; Land use change; Rao index

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; GRAZING; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; GRAZING PRESSURE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT TYPE; INDEX METHOD; LAND USE CHANGE; LIVESTOCK; RAINFALL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STABILIZATION; TAXONOMY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84866542079     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02193.x     Document Type: Article

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