Determinants of fine-scale plant diversity in dry calcareous grasslands within the Baltic Sea region

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 182, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-68

  Reitalu, Triin ^a   Helm, Aveliina ^b   Pärtel, Meelis ^b   Bengtsson, Karin ^c   Gerhold, Pille ^b,d   Rosén, Ejvind ^e   Takkis, Krista ^b   Znamenskiy, Sergey ^f   Prentice, Honor C ^g  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alvar; Biogeographic; Habitat history; Immigration histories; Phylogenetic clustering; Species density; Standardized effect size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893808992     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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