The Balkan wet grassland vegetation: A prerequisite to better understanding of European habitat diversity

Plant Ecology

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-213

  Hájek, Michal ^a,b   Hájková, Petra ^a,b   Sopotlieva, Desislava ^c   Apostolova, Iva ^c   Velev, Nikolay ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Altitude; Climate; Compositional data analysis; Molinietalia; Wet meadows; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COEXISTENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

ASIA; BALKAN; BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TURKMENISTAN; WEST ASIA;

EID: 41049115048     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9315-8     Document Type: Article

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