Exploring spatiotemporal patterns in early stages of primary succession on former lignite mining sites

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 267-276

  Felinks, Birgit ^a,b   Wiegand, Thorsten ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b ANHALT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corynephorus; Facilitation; Pair correlation function; Point pattern analysis; Species interaction

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; GRASS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIGNITE; MINING; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRIMARY SUCCESSION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LUSATIA;

CORYNEPHORUS; CORYNEPHORUS CANESCENS;

EID: 43249090887     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3170/2008-8-18369     Document Type: Article

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