Species and life-forms composition of Mediterranean mountain pastures in two years of contrasting precipitation

Flora

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 231-240

  Rodríguez, Miguel A ^a,c   Borges, Paulo A V ^b   Gómez Sal, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological spectrum; Drought; Fluctuations; Grasslands; Grazing regime; Plant species richness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; LIFE FORM; MONTANE PASTURE; PASTURE;

SPAIN;

POACEAE;

EID: 0343990127     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0367-2530(17)30789-2     Document Type: Article

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