Festuco-Brometea communities of the Transylvanian Plateau (Romania) - A preliminary overview on syntaxonomy, ecology, and biodiversity

Tuexenia

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 319-359

  Dengler, Jürgen ^h   Becker, Thomas ^a   Ruprecht, Eszter ^b   Szabó, Anna ^b   Becker, Ute ^d   Beldean, Monica ^b   Bita Nicolae, Claudia ^c   Dolnik, Christian ^e   Goia, Irina ^b   Peyrat, Jann ^e   Sutcliffe, Laura M E ^f   Turtureanu, Pavel Dan ^b   Uǧurlu, Emin ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Romania)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^g CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bryophyte; Conservation; Dry grassland; High nature value grassland; Lichen; Nomenclatural revision; Species richness; Vascular plant; Vegetation classification; Vegetation environment relationship

Indexed keywords

BRACHYPODIETUM; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; STIPION; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84871893155     PISSN: 0722494X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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