Dry calcareous grasslands from two neighboring biogeographic regions: Relationship between plant traits and rarity

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2207-2221

  Pipenbaher, Nataša ^a   Kaligarič, Mitja ^a   Mason, Norman W H ^b   Škornik, Sonja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Central European grasslands; Community weighted mean (CWM); Dinaric grasslands; Plant functional traits; Threatened plant species

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GRASSLAND; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; PLANT; RARITY; RED LIST; RESOURCE USE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BALKAN; TURKMENISTAN;

EID: 84883289061     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-013-0520-6     Document Type: Article

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