Effects of visitor pressure on understory vegetation in Warsaw forested parks (Poland)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 5823-5836

  Sikorski, Piotr ^a   Szumacher, Iwona ^b   Sikorska, Daria ^a   Kozak, Marcin ^a   Wierzba, Marek ^c  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c SIEDLCE UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ancient forest; Homogenisation; Trampling; Understorey vegetation; Urban park

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT FOREST; HOMOGENISATION; TRAMPLING; UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION; URBAN PARKS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL MECHANICS;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; HABITAT QUALITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PUBLIC ACCESS; STAND STRUCTURE; TRAMPLING; UNDERSTORY; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODLAND;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; LANDSCAPE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL COMPACTION; SOIL MOISTURE; TAXONOMY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; PLANTS; POLAND; RECREATION; TREES;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; HOMOGENIZATION; PLANTS;

MAZOWIECKIE; POLAND; WARSAW [MAZOWIECKIE];

EID: 84878710035     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2987-0     Document Type: Article

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