Submediterranean dry grasslands along the Tyrrhenian sector of central Italy: Synecology, syndynamics and syntaxonomy

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 266-290

  Blasi, C ^a   Facioni, L ^a   Burrascano, S ^a   Del Vico, E ^a   Tilia, A ^a   Rosati, L ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ecological land classification; Festuco Brometea; Lazio region; phytosociology; Stellarietea

Indexed keywords

BROMUS; BROMUS ERECTUS; QUERCUS VIRGILIANA;

EID: 84863494458     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2012.656729     Document Type: Article

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