River plants from an Iberian basin and environmental factors influencing their distribution

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 415, Issue , 1999, Pages 101-107

  Ferreira, M T ^a   Moreira, I S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic factors; Canonical correspondence analysis; Fluvial macrophytes; Mediterranean rivers; Portugal

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EUROPE;

EID: 0033571932     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003837802366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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