Fifty years of change in an area of intensive agriculture: Plant trait responses to habitat modification and conservation, Bedfordshire, England

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3597-3613

  Walker, Kevin J ^a   Preston, Christopher D ^b   Boon, Christopher R ^c  

^a BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF THE BRITISH ISLES   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonisation; Competitive ability; Dispersal; Eutrophication; Extinction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893644860     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9662-y     Document Type: Article

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