Can management intensity be more important than environmental factors? A case study along an extreme elevation gradient from central Italian cereal fields

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 343-353

  Pal, R W ^a   Pinke, G ^b   Botta Dukat Z ^c   Campetella, G ^d   Bartha, S ^c   Kalocsai, R ^b   Lengyel, A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b University of West   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Intensification; intensively managed fields; low input fields; redundancy analysis; species richness; weed vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879950486     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2012.753485     Document Type: Article

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