Importance of grazing and soil acidity for plant community composition and trait characterisation in coastal dune grasslands

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-186

  Tahmasebi Kohyani, P ^a,b   Bossuyt, B ^a   Bonte, D ^a   Hoffmann, M ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b AEROSPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Nature management; Plant functional trait; Selective grazing

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449094656     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3170/2008-7-18351     Document Type: Article

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