Plant communities of Italy: The Vegetation Prodrome

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 728-814

  Biondi, E ^a   Blasi, C ^b   Allegrezza, M ^a   Anzellotti, I ^b   Azzella, M M ^b   Carli, E ^b   Casavecchia, S ^a   Copiz, R ^b   Del Vico, E ^b   Facioni, L ^b   Galdenzi, D ^a   Gasparri, R ^a   Lasen, C ^c   Pesaresi, S ^a   Poldini, L ^d   Sburlino, G ^e   Taffetani, F ^a   Vagge, I ^f   Zitti, S ^a   Zivkovic, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c University of Trieste ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Braun Blanquet approach; checklist; nomenclature; Phytosociology; syntaxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918547545     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2014.948527     Document Type: Article

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