Floristic diversity of meadow steppes in the Western Siberian Plain: effects of abiotic site conditions, management and landscape structure

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2361-2379

  Mathar, Wanja P ^a   Kämpf, Immo ^a,b   Kleinebecker, Till ^a   Kuzmin, Igor ^c   Tolstikov, Andrey ^c   Tupitsin, Sergey ^c   Hölzel, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c TYUMEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Grazing; Mass effect; Russia; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST-STEPPE; GRAZING; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEADOW; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIAN LOWLAND; USSR;

EID: 84946762763     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-015-1023-4     Document Type: Article

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