Classification and gradient analysis of the beech forest vegetation of the southern Rodopi (northeast Greece)

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 249-270

  Tsiripidis, Ioannis ^a   Karagiannakidou, Vassiliki ^a   Alifragis, Dimitrios ^b   Athanasiadis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fagus sylvatica; Fidelity value; Floristic differentiation; Forest soil; Multivariate analysis; Plant communities

Indexed keywords

FLORISTICS; FOREST SOIL; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; RHODOPE MOUNTAINS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 34848888879     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02806466     Document Type: Article

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