Geographical and ecological differentiation in Greek Fagus forest vegetation

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 743-750

  Tsiripidis, Ioannis ^a   Bergmeier, Erwin ^b   Dimopoulos, Panayotis ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Balkan; Beech; Classification; Gradient analysis; Phytosociology

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; VEGETATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 34848840600     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2007.tb02589.x     Document Type: Article

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