Shift in Plant Species Composition Reveals Environmental Changes During the Last Decades: A Long-Term Study in Beech (Fagus sylvatica) Forests in Bavaria, Germany

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 467-491

  Jantsch, Matthias C ^a   Fischer, Anton ^a   Fischer, Hagen S ^a   Winter, Susanne ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eutrophication; Long term study; Multivariate analyses; Phytosociological relev ; Temperature change; Vegetation succession

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL WARMING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BAVARIA; GERMANY;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; JUGLANS; JUGLANS REGIA;

EID: 84891624549     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12224-012-9148-7     Document Type: Article

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