Conservation Potential of Abandoned Military Areas Matches That of Established Reserves: Plants and Butterflies in the Czech Republic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Cizek, Oldrich ^a,c   Vrba, Pavel ^a,b   Benes, Jiri ^b   Hrazsky, Zaboj ^a,d   Koptik, Jiri ^d   Kucera, Tomas ^a   Marhoul, Pavel ^d   Zamecnik, Jaroslav ^e   Konvicka, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c Hutur   (Czech Republic)

^d DAPHNE R Institute of Applied Ecology   (Czech Republic)

^e Museum of Eastern Bohemia   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FAUNA; FOREST; GRASSLAND; HABITAT; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; SCRUB; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; MILITARY FACILITIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

PAPILIONOIDEA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84872228392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053124     Document Type: Article

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