Phytosociology today: Methodological and conceptual evolution

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 145, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 19-29

  Biondi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

current potential vegetation; landscape ecology; new definition of association; Phytosociology; plant associations; plant ecology; syndynamic; synecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855963005     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2011.602748     Document Type: Article

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