Clustering of plant life strategies on meso-scale

Plant Ecology

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-56

  Massant, Wim ^a   Godefroid, Sandrine ^a,b   Koedam, Nico ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b BOTANIC GARDEN MEISE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belgium; Forest management; Forest roads; Plant life strategy; Spatial pattern; Stand type

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LIFE HISTORY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STAND STRUCTURE; TEMPERATE FOREST;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

FAGUS;

EID: 70350176013     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9597-0     Document Type: Article

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