The Rengen Grassland Experiment: Plant species composition after 64 years of fertilizer application

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 259-266

  Hejcman, Michal ^a   Klaudisová, Michaela ^a   Schellberg, Jürgen ^b   Honsová, Dagmar ^a  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional groups; Long term fertilization; Reseeding; Species richness; Sward height

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FLORISTICS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASS; GRASSLAND; LEGUME; MOSS; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; SWARD; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EIFEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; RHENISH SCHIEFERGEBIRGE; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS; ARRHENATHERUM ELATIUS; BRIZA MEDIA; BRYOPHYTA; CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; CAREX; CAREX PANICEA; LATHYRUS; LATHYRUS LINIFOLIUS; NARDUS STRICTA; ORCHIDACEAE; POACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA; TRISETUM FLAVESCENS;

EID: 34248223028     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2006.12.036     Document Type: Article

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