Assessing the Biodiversity Value of Stands and Patches in a Landscape Context

Managing and Designing Landscapes for Conservation: Moving from Perspectives to Principles

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 215-228

  Gibbons, Philip ^a   Briggs, S V ^a   Zerger, Andre ^a   Ayers, Danielle ^a   Seddon, Julian ^a   Doyle, Stuart ^a  

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Author keywords

Agri environmental schemes; Biodiversity; Ecological processes; Land clearing; Landscapes; Rapid biodiversity assessment; Scale.; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889383628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470692400.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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