Assessment of flora, plant communities, and hydrochemical conditions for adaptive management of a small artificial wetland made in a park of a cool-temperate city

Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-210

  Yabe, Kazuo ^a   Nakamura, Takatoshi ^b  

^a SAPPORO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annuals; DCA; Fen; Hydrochemical environment; Naturalized exotic plants; Secondary succession; TWINSPAN

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954175862     PISSN: 18601871     EISSN: 1860188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11355-009-0098-z     Document Type: Article

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