Grassland vegetation along roads differing in size and traffic density

Annales Botanici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-117

  Jantunen, Juha ^a   Saarinen, Kimmo ^a   Valtonen, Anu ^a   Saarnio, Sanna ^b  

^a Etela karjalan Allergia ja Ymparistoinstituutti   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Management; Road verge; Semi natural grassland; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646729127     PISSN: 00033847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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