Environmental factors and vegetation composition, Lefka Ori massif, Crete, S. Aegean

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 131-146

  Vogiatzakis, Ioannis N ^a   Griffiths, Geoffrey H ^a   Mannion, Antoinette M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alti mediterranean zone; CCA; Classification; Endemics; Greece; Ordination; Oro mediterranean zone; Plant communities; TWINSPAN

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLANT;

GREECE; CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 0037355447     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1466-822X.2003.00021.x     Document Type: Article

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