Complex vegetation responses to soil disturbances in mountain grassland

Plant Ecology

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-88

  Sebastià, Maria Teresa ^a,b   Puig, Laura ^b  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ant hill; Plant functional types; Plant species richness; Ploughing; Pyrenees; Vole mound

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRASSLAND; GUILD STRUCTURE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PLOWING; RECOLONIZATION; RODENT; SEDGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

CAREX; DICOTYLEDONEAE; FORMICIDAE; MURIDAE; POACEAE;

EID: 52549085411     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9413-2     Document Type: Article

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