Status of wetland forests and their structural richness in Latvia

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 332-346

  Prieditis, Normunds ^a  

^a Gandrs Publishers   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Baltic region; Biodiversity evaluation; Boreo nemoral wetland; Community conservation; Site adapted forestry

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FOREST; LATVIA; TOPOGRAPHY; TREE;

LATVIA;

EID: 0033382744     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892999000442     Document Type: Article

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