Impact of hoofed game and weather on the vegetation of endangered dry grasslands in the Křivoklátsko biosphere reserve (Czech Republic)

Tuexenia

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 283-299

  Petřík, Petr ^a   Černý, Tomáš ^a   Boublík, Karel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Browsing; Festuco brometea; Game impact; Koelerio corynephoretea; Long term research; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961148212     PISSN: 0722494X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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