Seed rain in natural grassland and adjacent ski run in the Swiss Alps: a preliminary report

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-165

  Urbanska, Krystyna M ^a   Erdt, Silvia ^a   Fattorini, Marzio ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; SEED RAIN; SKI RUN;

EUROPE, ALPS; SWITZERLAND, ALPS;

EID: 0031663972     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1998.00626.x     Document Type: Article

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