Restoration ecology of alpine and arctic areas: Are the classical concepts of niche and succession directly applicable?

Opera Botanica

Volumn , Issue 132, 1997, Pages 189-200

  Urbanska, Krystyna M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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