Differential effects of abandonment on the demography of the grassland perennial Succisa pratensis

Population Ecology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 151-160

  van der Meer, Sascha ^a,c   Dahlgren, Johan Petter ^a,b   Mildén, Mikael ^a   Ehrlén, Johan ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Grazing; Integral projection models (IPM); Management; Population dynamics; Population viability; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; LAND USE CHANGE; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOCHASTICITY;

SUCCISA; SUCCISA PRATENSIS;

EID: 84890866169     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-013-0400-7     Document Type: Article

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