Land use history and the build-up and decline of species richness in Scandinavian semi-natural grasslands

Pastoral Systems in Marginal Environments: Proceedings of a Satellite Workshop of the XXth International Grassland Congress, July 2005, Glasgow, Scotland

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 51-60

  Eriksson, O ^a   Cousins, S A O ^a   Lindborg, R ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colonization; Extinction; Grassland management; Landscape history; Regional species dynamics; Restoration; Species density

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875654870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-557-4     Document Type: Chapter

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