Farmland abandonment: Threat or opportunity for biodiversity conservation? A global review

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 288-296

  Queiroz, Cibele ^a,b   Beilin, Ruth ^c   Folke, Carl ^a,d   Lindborg, Regina ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; HABITAT; REGENERATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND USE; LAND USE PLANNING; POLICY MAKING; RURAL LANDSCAPE;

EURASIA;

EID: 84903136849     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/120348     Document Type: Review

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