Vegetation patterns and primary succession on sea-born volcanic islands (Santorini archipelago, Aegean Sea, Greece)

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Dimopoulos, Panayotis ^a   Raus, Thomas ^b   Mucina, Ladislav ^c   Tsiripidis, Ioannis ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Halo nitrophilous scrub; Kameni islands; Mediterranean vegetation; Ordination; Tephra; Therophytic vegetation; Vegetation dynamics; Volcano

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LAVA; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; ORDINATION; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; TEPHRA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ISLAND;

AEGEAN SEA; CYCLADAS; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SANTORIN; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

PALEA;

EID: 77953655558     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2010/0040-0426     Document Type: Article

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