Does land-use intensification decrease plant phylogenetic diversity in local grasslands?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Egorov, Eugen ^a   Prati, Daniel ^b   Durka, Walter ^c   Michalski, Stefan ^c   Fischer, Markus ^b   Schmitt, Barbara ^b   Blaser, Stefan ^b   Brändle, Martin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HUMAN; PLANT;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS;

EID: 84904987405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103252     Document Type: Article

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