Predicting Understorey Vegetation Cover from Overstorey Attributes in Two Temperate Mountain Forests
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عنوان ژورنال: Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0015-8003,1439-0337
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-003-0004-4