Effects of harvesting dates and frequencies on above and below-ground dynamics in Belgian wet grasslands

Ecoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 190-198

  Dumortier, Myriam ^a,b   Verlinden, Alex ^a,c   Beeckman, Hans ^a,d   Van Der Mijnsbrugge, Kristine ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Institute for Nature Conservation ^*  (Belgium)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^d ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Below ground; Harvesting; Species rich; Wet grasslands

Indexed keywords

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS CANINA; ANTHOXANTHUM ODORATUM; CAREX ACUTA; CUCULI; FLOS; LYCHNIS; LYCHNIS FLOS-CUCULI; CARYOPHYLLACEAE; CYPERACEAE; POACEAE;

GRASSLAND; ROOT;

BELGIUM;

EID: 0030460497     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1996.11682330     Document Type: Article

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