Grazing response patterns indicate isolation of semi-natural European grasslands

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 599-612

  Weiss, Lina ^a,b   Pfestorf, Hans ^a   May, Felix ^a,c   Körner, Katrin ^a   Boch, Steffen ^d   Fischer, Markus ^a,d   Müller, Jörg ^a   Prati, Daniel ^d   Socher, Stephanie A ^d   Jeltsch, Florian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; GRASSLAND; LAND USE; LIVESTOCK; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION MODELING; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84898793508     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00957.x     Document Type: Article

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