To sample or not to sample? That is the question... For the vegetation scientist

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 209-216

  Chiarucci, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Plant communities; Vegetation sampling; Vegetation science

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; VEGETATION;

EID: 34347259479     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02893887     Document Type: Article

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