Impact of mowing regime on species richness and biomass of a limestone hay meadow in Ireland

Bulletin of the Geobotanical Institute ETH

Volumn 69, Issue , 2003, Pages 17-30

  Beltman, Boudewijn ^a   Van Den Broek, Tom ^a   Martin, Wendy ^b   Ten Cate, Marianne ^b   Güsewell, Sabine ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Corrib Conservation Centre ^*  (Ireland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calcareous grassland; Canopy structure; Diversity; Mowing experiment; Redundancy analysis; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARRHENATHERUM;

EID: 0346038982     PISSN: 14206803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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