Influence of the dominant grass Festuca varia Haenke on the spatial pattern of Alpine Grasslands in the Northwestern Caucasus, Russia

Arctic and Alpine Research

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-18

  Pokarzhevskaya, Galina A ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANT SPECIES; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LITTER PRODUCTION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TUSSOCK GRASS;

CAUCASUS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

FESTUCA VARIA; POACEAE;

EID: 0031887040     PISSN: 00040851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1551740     Document Type: Article

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