Variability of plant species diversity in Swedish natural forest and its relation to atmospheric deposition

Vegetatio

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-72

  Liu, Qinghong ^a   Bråkenhielm, Sven ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Environmental monitoring; Human influence; Natural variation; Species evenness; Species richness; Sweden Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0029822004     PISSN: 00423106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00045205     Document Type: Article

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