Twenty-Years’ Changes of Wetland Vegetation: Effects of Floodplain-Level Threats

Wetlands

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 591-604

  Ortmann Ajkai, Adrienne ^a   Csicsek, Gábor ^a   Hollós, Roland ^a   Magyaros, Viktor ^a   Wágner, László ^b   Lóczy, Dénes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b Danube Drava National Park   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Archive data; Drava floodplain; Hungary; Invasive plants; Landscape history; NATURA2000 habitats

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLOODPLAIN; HABITAT RESTORATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

HUNGARY;

EID: 85041098367     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-018-1002-0     Document Type: Article

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