Functional diversity and trait composition of butterfly and bird communities in farmlands of central romania

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Hanspach, Jan ^a   Loos, Jacqueline ^a   Dorresteijn, Ine ^a   Von wehrden, Henrik ^a   Moga, Cosmin Ioan ^b   David, Alin ^c  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b Educational Ecological Association Ecotransilvania   (Romania)

^c BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

agricultural intensification; bird communities; butterfly communities; farmland heterogeneity; land abandonment; low intensive agriculture; RLQ analysis; Transylvania, Romania

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010045865     PISSN: 20964129     EISSN: 23328878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/EHS15-0027.1     Document Type: Article

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