Species pool: The concept, its determination and significance for community restoration

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-66

  Zobel, Martin ^a   Van Der Maarel, Eddy ^b   Dupré, Cecilia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Determination of species pools; Dispersal; Plant community; Species richness; Target community

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001858896     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1479085     Document Type: Article

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