How should we view temperate semi-natural grasslands? Insights from butterflies in Japan
In humid temperate regions, it has been commonly thought that closed forests represent original states and grasslands are unstable human artifacts that persist only as “semi-natural” states. This perspective underrates grasslands, because it makes the recent decline in grassland excusable. A contras...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Global Ecology and Conservation |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989418304335 |