Nestedness and niche-based species loss in moorland plant communities

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1783-1790

  Sasaki, Takehiro ^a   Katabuchi, Masatoshi ^a   Kamiyama, Chiho ^a   Shimazaki, Masaya ^a   Nakashizuka, Tohru ^a   Hikosaka, Kouki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EXTINCTION; MOORLAND; NESTEDNESS; NICHE; NICHE BREADTH; PATCHINESS; PH; PLANT COMMUNITY; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TOLERANCE; VULNERABILITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84867746089     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20152.x     Document Type: Article

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