Ecology of some mire and bog plant communities in the Western Italian Alps

Journal of Limnology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 88-96

  Miserere, Luca ^a   Montacchini, Franco ^a   Buffa, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brown mosses; Mire vegetation; Oceanicity continentality gradient; Peatlands; Sphagnum; Water chemistry

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MIRE; PEATLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ALPS; ITALY;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM PAPILLOSUM; SPHAGNUM SUBNITENS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0042386333     PISSN: 11295767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/jlimnol.2003.88     Document Type: Article

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