How to Maximally Support Local and Regional Biodiversity in Applied Conservation? Insights from Pond Management

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Lemmens, Pieter ^a   Mergeay, Joachim ^a,b   de Bie, Tom ^a   Van Wichelen, Jeroen ^c   de Meester, Luc ^a   Declerck, Steven A J ^a,d  

^a Lab Aquatic Ecology   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; FISH STOCK; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; MAN MADE POND; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; POND; SPECIES RICHNESS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; BELGIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHES; HUMANS; PONDS;

EID: 84881484136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072538     Document Type: Article

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