The relative impact of human disturbances on the vegetation of a large wetland complex

Wetlands

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 333-344

  Tousignant, Marie Êve ^a   Pellerin, Stéphanie ^a   Brisson, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Bog; Environmental gradient; Fen; Species richness; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOG; BRYOPHYTE; DATA INTERPRETATION; FEN; FLORISTICS; HETEROGENEITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEATLAND; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 77956487128     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-010-0019-9     Document Type: Article

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