Plant communities on metalliferous soils in northern Greece

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 411-438

  Bergmeier, Erwin ^a   Konstantinou, Maria ^b   Tsiripidis, Ioannis ^c   Sýkora, Karlè V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KAVALA   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balkan peninsula; Heavy metals; Metallophytes; Phytosociology; Serpentine; Serpentinophytes; Syntaxonomy; Vegetation classification

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLORISTICS; HEAVY METAL; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SERPENTINE; SYNTAXONOMY; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

BALKANS; GREECE;

EID: 77950341140     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2009/0039-0411     Document Type: Article

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