Threatened alvar grasslands in NW Russia and their relationship to alvars in Estonia

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1797-1809

  Znamenskiy, Sergey ^a   Helm, Aveliina ^b   Pärtel, Meelis ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Grazing; Pasture; Semi natural vegetation; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

ALVAR; CONSERVATION; LIMESTONE; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646867190     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-004-6680-7     Document Type: Article

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