Biodiversity gains and losses: Evidence for homogenisation of Scottish alpine vegetation

2009/04/07 by Andrea J. Britton, Colin M. Beale, Willie Towers +2 · 154 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biodiversity #Biodiversity hotspot #Biology #Climate change #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Environmental change #Environmental science #Generalist and specialist species #Geography #Habitat #Lichen and fungal ecology #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Species diversity #Species richness #Vegetation (pathology)

paper · doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.03.010

published in Biological Conservation 142(8), 1728-1739 (Elsevier BV)

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