Relationships between forest floor vegetation on ICP Forests monitoring plots in Europe and basic variables in soil and nitrogen deposition

International Journal of Environmental Studies

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-322

  Seidling, Walter ^a   Fischer, Richard ^a   Granke, Oliver ^a  

^a Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detrended correspondence analysis; Floristic composition; Nitrogen deposition; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

DICHLOROACETIC ACID; EUTROPHICATION; FLOORS; NITROGEN; SOILS; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN DEPOSITION; DETRENDED CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; FLORISTIC COMPOSITIONS; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; PLANT SPECIES COMPOSITION; THROUGHFALL DEPOSITION; VASCULAR PLANT;

FORESTRY;

ACIDITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; FORESTRY; MONITORING; NITROGEN; PLANTS; PLASMA; SOIL;

CERATOCAPNOS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 45849146568     PISSN: 00207233     EISSN: 10290400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207230701862538     Document Type: Article

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