Biomass and element pools of understory vegetation in the catchments of Certovo Lake and Plesne Lake in the Bohemian Forest

Biologia (Poland)

Volumn 61, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Svoboda, Miroslav ^a   Matějka, Karel ^b   KopáČek, Jiří ^c  

^a CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b IDS ^*  (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Calamagrostis villosa; Norway spruce forest; understory vegetation; Vaccinium myrtillus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930020473     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-007-0074-8     Document Type: Article

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