Diversity in Mediterranean farm ponds: Trade-offs and synergies between irrigation modernisation and biodiversity conservation

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-78

  Fuentes Rodríguez, Francisca ^a   Juan, Melchor ^a   Gallego, Irene ^a   Lusi, Mirian ^a   Fenoy, Encarnación ^a   León, David ^b   Peñalver, Patricio ^b   Toja, Julia ^b   Casas, J Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

; ; diversity; Farmlands; Macroinvertebrates; Naturalisation stage; Submerged aquatic vegetation; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870999948     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12038     Document Type: Article

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