Effect of the method of assessing and weighting abundance on the interpretation of the relationship between plant clonal traits and meadow management

Preslia

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 437-453

  Klimešová, Jitka ^a   Janeček, Štěpán ^a   Horník, Jan ^b,c   Doležal, Jiří ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b Centaurea Society for Landscape Monitoring and Management   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Clonal index; Clonal traits; Fertilization; Mowing; Plant height; Seminatural grasslands; SLA

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLONAL ORGANISM; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HEIGHT; IMMIGRATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MEADOW; PLANT COMMUNITY;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 79960373480     PISSN: 00327786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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