Mosaic-level inference of the impact of land cover changes in agricultural landscapes on biodiversity: a case-study with a threatened grassland bird.

Changes in land use/land cover are a major driver of biodiversity change in the Mediterranean region. Understanding how animal populations respond to these landscape changes often requires using landscape mosaics as the unit of investigation, but few previous studies have measured both response and...

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Main Authors: Francisco Moreira, João P Silva, Beatriz Estanque, Jorge M Palmeirim, Miguel Lecoq, Márcia Pinto, Domingos Leitão, Ivan Alonso, Rui Pedroso, Eduardo Santos, Teresa Catry, Patricia Silva, Inês Henriques, Ana Delgado
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3377729?pdf=render