Restoration of the understorey layer of recent forest bordering ancient forest

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-50

  Bossuyt, Beatrijs ^a   Hermy, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Colonization; Dispersal; Forest species; Secondary succession; Species pool

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034088197     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1478917     Document Type: Article

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