Grazing impact on plant spatial distribution and community composition

Plant Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-28

  Kohyani, Pejman Tahmasebi ^a,b   Bossuyt, Beatrijs ^a   Bonte, Dries ^a   Hoffmann, Maurice ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alpha diversity; Box counting fractal dimension; Emergent groups; Gamma diversity; Self similarity; Species turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955707813     PISSN: 20323913     EISSN: 20323921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.2011.429     Document Type: Article

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