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Succession in road bank vegetation

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On a newly created road bank in Eastern Bohemia, during the first 7 years vegetation developed at the highest rate in the lower zone of the slope, due to favourable moisture and the supply of nutrients. On the upper slope succession was slowed down by multiple disturbance, while plants in the ditch were stressed by excessive flooding.

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  1. Department of Hydrobotany, Institute of Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 379 82, Třeboň, Czechoslovakia

    Leoš Klimeš

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Klimeš, L. Succession in road bank vegetation. Folia geobot. phytotax. 22, 435–440 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02853242

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