Phytosociological study of the snowbed vegetation in the Northern Apennines (Northern Italy)

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-98

  Petraglia, Alessandro ^a   Tomaselli, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpine vegetation; Bryophytes; Canonical correspondence analysis; Climatic change; Salicetea herbaceae; Syntaxonomy

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMUS; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SNOW COVER; SYNTAXONOMY; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION COVER;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33947621005     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2007/0037-0067     Document Type: Article

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