Maintaining cultural and natural biodiversity in the Carpathian mountain ecoregion: Need for an integrated landscape approach

Environmental Science and Engineering (Subseries: Environmental Science)

Volumn , Issue 9783642127243, 2013, Pages 393-424

  Angelstam, Per ^a   Elbakidze, Marine ^a   Axelsson, Robert ^a   Čupa, Peter ^b   Halada, L’uboš ^c   Molnar, Zsolt ^d   Pătru Stupariu, Ileana ^e   Perzanowski, Kajetan ^f,g   Rozulowicz, Laurentiu ^e   Standovar, Tibor ^h   Svoboda, Miroslav ⁱ   Törnblom, Johan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Lower Morava Biosphere Reserve   (Czech Republic)

^c Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^d INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^f MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^g JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^h EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

ⁱ CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; HISTORIC PRESERVATION; LAND USE; RESTORATION; RURAL AREAS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; NATURAL DISTURBANCE REGIME; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

BIODIVERSITY;

EID: 85013278466     PISSN: 18635520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12725-0_28     Document Type: Chapter

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