Relation between forest vegetation, atmospheric deposition and site conditions at regional and European scales

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 921-933

  van Dobben, Han ^a   de Vries, Wim ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate; Deposition; Europe; Forest; Multivariate; Soil; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ACIDOPHYTIC; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN FORESTS; EUROPEAN NETWORKS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST VEGETATION; MONITORING PROGRAMS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; N DEPOSITION; NATURAL VARIATION; NETHERLANDS; NITROPHYTIC; SITE CONDITIONS; SOIL-VEGETATION; TREE SPECIES; UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERICS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SOILS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

DEPOSITION;

SULFUR;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIODIVERSITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST SOIL; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNDERSTOREY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; PLANTS; SOIL; TREES;

BIODIVERSITY; DEPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; EUROPE; FORESTRY; PLANTS; SOIL;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 74149087386     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

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