Conserving and promoting evenness: Organic farming and fire-based wildland management as case studies

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2001-2007

  Crowder, David W ^a   Northfield, Tobin D ^b   Gomulkiewicz, Richard ^a   Snyder, William E ^a   Cronin, J T ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Abundance; Agriculture; Biodiversity; Conservation; Ecosystem management; Evenness; Fire; Metadata; Organic farming; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; META-ANALYSIS; ORGANIC FARMING; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84866939081     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0110.1     Document Type: Article

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