The herb and dwarf shrubs colonization of decaying logs in subalpine forest in the Polish Tatra Mountains

Plant Ecology

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-72

  Zielonka, Tomasz ^a   Piątek, Grzegorz ^b  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coarse woody debris (CWD); Decomposition rate; Norway spruce (Picea abies); Plant colonization; Regeneration pattern; Tatra Mountains

Indexed keywords

COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; COLONIZATION; HERB; REGENERATION; SHRUB;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

ABIES; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; TRACHEOPHYTA; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS;

EID: 3543008422     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VEGE.0000026037.03716.fc     Document Type: Article

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