Irish wetland woods: The plant communities and their ecology

Biology and Environment

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-29

  Kelly, Daniel L ^a   Iremonger, Susan F ^a,b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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