Road vegetation in Central Europe - An example from the Czech Republic

Biologia

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1085-1088

  Šerá, Božena ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Highway; Invasion; Maintenance; Soil; Tree; Weed

Indexed keywords

DIGITARIA SANGUINALIS; HEXAPODA; PUCCINELLIA DISTANS; SPERGULARIA RUBRA;

EID: 57349088406     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-008-0152-6     Document Type: Article

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