The role of landscape, topography, and geodiversity in explaining vascular plant species richness in a fragmented landscape

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2016, Pages 53-70

  Räsänen, Aleksi ^a,b   Kuitunen, Markku ^a   Hjort, Jan ^c   Vaso, Asta ^a   Kuitunen, Tuomo ^d   Lensu, Anssi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d NONE

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EID: 84971655225     PISSN: 12396095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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