The effect of management on productivity, litter accumulation and seedling recruitment in a Carpathian mountain grassland

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 523-533

  Galvánek, Dobromil ^a   Lepš, Jan ^b,c  

^a DAPHNE R Institute of Applied Ecology   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Forbs; Grassland management; Litter accumulation; Seedling recruitment; Species richness; Standing crop; Western Carpathians

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; DECOMPOSITION; GRASSLAND; LEAF LITTER; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MOWING; PHYTOMASS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION TYPE;

CARPATHIANS; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 84857911079     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9999-7     Document Type: Article

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