Grassland communites of urban open spaces in Bloemfontein, Free state, South Africa

Koedoe

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dingaan, Mamokete N V ^a   du Preez, Pieter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOME; BIOTIC FACTOR; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; OPEN SPACE; PH; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWINSPAN; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION;

BLOEMFONTEIN; FREE STATE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84875194720     PISSN: 00756458     EISSN: 20710771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/koedoe.v55i1.1075     Document Type: Article

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