Restorative grazing as a tool for directed succession with diaspore inoculation: The model of sand ecosystems

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 595-625

  Stroh, Michael ^a   Storm, Christian ^a   Zehm, Andreas ^a   Schwabe, Angelika ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diet selection; Festuco brometea; Koelerio corynephoretea; Nitrogen; Sheep and donkeys; Target plant species

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; GRAZING; PROPAGULE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SUCCESSION;

GERMANY; HESSE;

AGROPYRETEA; BROMETEA; CALAMAGROSTIS EPIGEJOS; CIRSIUM ARVENSE; FABACEAE; OVIS ARIES; POA ANGUSTIFOLIA;

EID: 0036931469     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2002/0032-0595     Document Type: Article

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