Predicting understorey vegetation cover from overstorey attributes in two temperate mountain forests;Beziehungen zwischen Bodenvegetation und Bestandesiegenschaften in zwei Gebirgswäldern der gemässigten Zone

Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 273-286

  Weisberg, Peter J ^a   Hadorn, Christian ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Canopy; Forest structure; Forest succession models; Light availability; Overstorey understorey interactions; Plant community composition

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; OVERSTORY; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION COVER;

ADENOSTYLES;

EID: 0348234806     PISSN: 00158003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-003-0004-4     Document Type: Article

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