Relationships between environmental variables and vegetation across mountain wetland sites, N. Iran

Biologia

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-87

  Kamrani, Asghar ^a,b   Jalili, Adel ^c   Naqinezhad, Alireza ^d   Attar, Farideh ^b   Maassoumi, Ali Asghar ^c   Shaw, Sue C ^e  

^a SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTS AND RANGELANDS   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

altitudinal gradient; dry mountain wetlands; Iran; life form; vegetation ordination; Western Alborz mountain range

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650509439     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-010-0127-2     Document Type: Article

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