Vegetation-environment relationships in the alderwood communities of Caspian lowlands, N. Iran (toward an ecological classification)

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 203, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 567-577

  Naqinezhad, Alireza ^a,b,c   Hamzeh'ee, Behnam ^d   Attar, Farideh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTS AND RANGELANDS   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acidity; Alnus glutinosa ssp. barbata; Canocical correspondence analysis; Groundwater level; Iran; Lowland Hyrcanian forest

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GROUNDWATER; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; VEGETATION; WATER LEVEL;

ASIA; CASPIAN COAST [IRAN]; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

ALNUS; ALNUS GLUTINOSA;

EID: 50649124447     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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