Changes in understorey vegetation after Norway spruce colonization of an abandoned grassland

Annales Botanici Fennici

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 256-266

  Janišová, Monika ^a   Hrivnák, Richard ^a   Gömöry, Dušan ^b   Ujházy, Karol ^b   Valachovič, Milan ^a   Gömöryová, Erika ^b   Hegedüšová, Katarína ^a   Škodová, Iveta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Slovakia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN ZVOLEN   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Light availability; Litter accumulation; Picea abies; Secondary succession; Species environment relationships; Understorey vegetation

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 34548833563     PISSN: 00033847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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