Evaluation of restoration success in alluvial grasslands under contrasting flooding regimes

Biological Conservation

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 641-650

  Bissels, Stephanie ^a   Hölzel, Norbert ^a   Donath, Tobias W ^a   Otte, Annette ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Flood plain; Hydrochory; Ordination

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GRASSLAND; HYDROCHORY; MEADOW; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

POACEAE;

EID: 2042497145     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2003.10.013     Document Type: Article

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