Process-based long-term evaluation of an ecological network of calcareous grasslands connected by sheep herding

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 374-382

  Wagner, Helene H ^a   Rico, Yessica ^a   Lehnert, Henry ^b   Boehmer, Hans Juergen ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SURVEY; CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; COLONIZATION; EXTINCTION; GRAZING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT TYPE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PASTURE; SHEEP; SPECIALIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA; OVIS ARIES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84875369308     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07463.x     Document Type: Article

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