VegItaly: The Italian collaborative project for a national vegetation database

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 756-763

  Landucci, F ^a   Acosta, A T R ^b   Agrillo, E ^c   Attorre, F ^c   Biondi, E ^d   Cambria, V E ^c   Chiarucci, A ^e   Del Vico, E ^c   de Sanctis, M ^c   Facioni, L ^c   Geri, F ^e   Gigante, D ^a   Guarino, R ^f   Landi, S ^e   Lucarini, D ^h   Panfili, E ⁱ   Pesaresi, S ^d   Prisco, I ^b   Rosati, L ^g   Spada, F ^c   Venanzoni, R ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

ⁱ Aspix Consultancy Company   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity informatics; database; phytosociology; relev ; vegetation plot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869435606     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2012.740093     Document Type: Article

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