Alien plant invasions and gravelly floodplain vegetation of the Kinu River. Ecol. Civil Eng. 4(2), 121-132, 2001

Ecology and Civil Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 121-132

  Muranaka, Takashi ^a   Washitani, Izumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

gravelly floodplain vegetation; invaded alien plants; Japanese river; river endemic plants; substrate features

Indexed keywords

EID: 59149105774     PISSN: 13443755     EISSN: 18825974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3825/ece.4.121     Document Type: Article

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