Species diversity of plant communities on calcareous screes: The role of intermediate disturbance

Preslia

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 207-222

  Rejmánek, Marcel ^a   Rejmánková, Eliška ^a   Holzner, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alps; Patch dynamics; Species coexistence; Species richness; Substrate instability; Succession; Successional mosaic

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS SOIL; PATCH DYNAMICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION COVER;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 10344242440     PISSN: 00327786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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