Different aspects of plant diversity show contrasting patterns in Carpathian forest openings

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 67-76

  Turtureanu, Pavel Dan ^a,b   Dengler, Jürgen ^b  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apuseni Mountains; Biodiversity; Diversity environment relationship; Multiple site dissimilarity; diversity; diversity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DIVERSITY INDEX; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; NATURE CONSERVATION; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSECT;

APUSENI MOUNTAINS; CARPATHIANS; ROMANIA;

EID: 83755187991     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-0007-z     Document Type: Article

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