Declining diversity in abandoned grasslands of the carpathian mountains: do dominant species matter?

Traditional haymaking has created exceptionally high levels of plant species diversity in semi-natural grasslands of the Carpathian Mountains (Romania), the maintenance of which is jeopardized by recent abandonment and subsequent vegetation succession. We tested the hypothesis that the different lif...

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Main Authors: Anna Mária Csergő, László Demeter, Roy Turkington
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24014148/pdf/?tool=EBI