Grassland canopy composition and spatial heterogeneity in the light quality

Plant Ecology

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 129-139

  Skálová, Hana ^a   Krahulec, František ^a   During, Heinjo J ^b   Hadincová, Věra ^a   Pecháčková, Sylvie ^a   Herben, Tomáš ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Community structure; Dicots; Grasses; Moran's I; Red far red ratio; Redundancy analysis; Shading

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 0344132057     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009899803229     Document Type: Article

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