Advances in the conservation of dry grasslands: Introduction to contributions from the seventh european dry grassland meeting

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 507-513

  Janisova M ^a   Bartha, S ^b   Kiehl, K ^c   Dengler, J ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conference report; European dry grassland group; Management; Restoration; Special feature; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052649494     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.603895     Document Type: Article

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