Spatial patterns of plant species, guilds and biological types in the regenerative phase of a beech coppice (Torricchio Mountain Nature Reserve, Apennines, Italy)

Acta Botanica Gallica

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 529-543

  Canullo, Roberto ^a   Campetella, Giandiego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central Apennines; Guilds; Horizontal structure; JNP models; Randomisation test; Scale dependency

Indexed keywords

FAGUS;

EID: 30344446359     PISSN: 12538078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/12538078.2005.10515512     Document Type: Article

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