Old-growth forest structure and deadwood: Are they indicators of plant species composition? A case study from central Italy

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 313-323

  Burrascano, Sabina ^a   Lombardi, Fabio ^b   Marchetti, Marco ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forest management; Permutational analysis of variance; Plant diversity; Redundancy analysis

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 49549117133     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263500802150613     Document Type: Article

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