Vegetation of rock clefts and ledges in the Pamir Alai Mts, Tajikistan (Middle Asia)

Central European Journal of Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 444-460

  Nowak, Arkadiusz ^a   Nowak, Sylwia ^a   Nobis, Marcin ^b   Nobis, Agnieszka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OPOLE   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alpine vegetation; Asplenietea trichomanis; Chasmophytes; Petrophytes; Syntaxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA RUTIFOLIA; ASPERULA; BRACHYTHECIUM ALBICANS; BRYOPHYTA; BRYUM; CAMPANULA; PARIETARIA; PARIETARIA JUDAICA; PENTANEMA; POA; STIPA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84891877272     PISSN: 1895104X     EISSN: 16443632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11535-013-0274-x     Document Type: Article

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