Norway spruce monocultures and their transformation to close-to-nature forests from the point of view of soil changes in the Czech Republic

Ekologia Bratislava

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-43

  Klimo, Emil ^a   Kulhavý, Jiří ^a  

^a MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Conversion; Soil changes; Spruce monoculture

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; HUMUS; MONOCULTURE; NITROGEN CYCLE; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL SURFACE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

FAGUS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 33645766790     PISSN: 1335342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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