Seed bank composition and above-ground vegetation in response to grazing in sub-Mediterranean oak forests (NW Greece)

Plant Ecology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 255-265

  Chaideftou, Evgenia ^a   Thanos, Costas A ^b   Bergmeier, Erwin ^c   Kallimanis, Athanasios ^a   Dimopoulos, Panayotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Browsing; Deciduous oak forests; Grazing; Greece; Ruminants; Soil seed bank; Wild boar; Wood pasture

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BROWSING; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; GRASS; GRAZING; HERB; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PASTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUMINANT; SEED BANK; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BOVIDAE; BRACHYPODIUM SYLVATICUM; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA AMYGDALOIDES; PHILLYREA LATIFOLIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 59849107861     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9548-1     Document Type: Article

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