The role of pond management for biodiversity conservation in an agricultural landscape

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 626-638

  Sayer, Carl ^a   Andrews, Katie ^a   Shilland, Ewan ^a   Edmonds, Nathan ^b   Edmonds Brown, Ronni ^c   Patmore, Ian ^a   Emson, Dave ^a   Axmacher, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Aquatic plants; Coleoptera; Macroinvertebrates; Pond restoration; Species diversity; Terrestrialization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ANOXIA; AQUATIC PLANT; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MACROPHYTE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; OXYGEN; POND; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENGLAND; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84867563634     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2254     Document Type: Article

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