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Biodiversity gradients in the Alps: the overriding importance of elevation

2007-11-01

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Land abandonment is causing woodland expansion and loss of open habitats in the Alps, coupled with a shift in forestry practices from coppice management to high forest. Despite such rapid large-scale changes, there has been very little investigation of the environmental predictors of biodiversity in the Alpine landscape. We assessed the richness of amphibians, reptiles and breeding birds (n = 189 species), used as...

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DOI: 10.1007/s10531-006-9113-y

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