Do abandoned tree plantations resemble natural riparian forests? A case study from northeast Greece

Botanica Helvetica

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 125-142

  Vasilopoulos, Grigorios ^a   Tsiripidis, Ioannis ^a   Karagiannakidou, Vasiliki ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exotic tree plantations; Forest restoration; Forested wetlands; Nestos river; Ordination; Populus x canadensis; Robinia pseudoacacia; Soil degradation

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; CHEMICAL PROPERTY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS TREE; LAND USE CHANGE; PLANTATION; RIPARIAN FOREST; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL PROPERTY; TOPSOIL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MESTA RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

POPULUS X CANADENSIS; ROBINIA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA;

EID: 38349030955     PISSN: 02531453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00035-007-0796-9     Document Type: Article

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