Importance of water level dynamics for vegetation patterns in a natural percolation mire (Rospuda fen, NE Poland)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 674, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-117

  Jabłońska, Ewa ^a   Pawlikowski, Paweł ^a   Jarzombkowski, Filip ^b   Chormański, Jarosław ^c   Okruszko, Tomasz ^c   Kłosowski, Stanisław ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brown moss small sedge vegetation; Rich fen; Rospuda valley; Vegetation zonation; Water chemistry; Water level dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOZONE; FEN; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MIRE; MOSS; PERCOLATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDGE; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE; WOODLAND;

PODLASKIE; POLAND; ROSPUDA VALLEY;

ALNUS; BRYOPHYTA; CAREX GRACILIOR; PICEA; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 79960732444     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0735-z     Document Type: Article

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