Vegetation ecology and diversity relationships in a riparian forest remnant of Western Greece

Journal of Biological Research

Volumn 16, Issue , 2011, Pages 237-254

  Kladis, Georgios ^a   Panitsa, Maria ^a   Tsiripidis, Ioannis ^b   Sarris, Dimitrios ^a   Dimopoulos, Panayotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alluvial forest vegetation; Dendrochronology; Fraxinus angustifolia; Greece protected forest; Riparian forest; Ulmus minor

Indexed keywords

FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; ULMUS; ULMUS MINOR;

EID: 80052517385     PISSN: 1790045X     EISSN: 1790045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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