Variance in species richness and guild proportionality in two contrasting dry grassland communities

Biologia

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 67-75

  Mucina, Ladislav ^a,b   Bartha, Sanyi ^a,b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Festuca pallens; Null model; Sesleria albicans; Slovakia; Species diversity; Tematin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002363919     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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