Substrate Factors Determine Roadside Vegetation Structure and Species Richness: A Case Study Along a Meridional

Małgorzata Jaźwa1, Waldemar Heise1, Beata Klimek2

  • 1Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 27, 31-501, Kraków, Poland.

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