Approaching the serpentine factor at a local scale-a study in an ultramafic area in Northern Greece

Plant and Soil

Volumn 329, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-50

  Tsiripidis, Ioannis ^a   Papaioannou, Athanasios ^b   Sapounidis, Vasilios ^a   Bergmeier, Erwin ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alyssum chalcidicum; Heavy metals; Plant communities; Serpentine vegetation; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEAVY METAL; PLANT COMMUNITY; SERPENTINE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

GREECE;

ALYSSUM;

EID: 77950339601     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-009-0132-9     Document Type: Article

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