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| Testing the species pool hypothesis for mire vegetation: exploring the influence of pH specialists and habitat history M Hájek, L Tichý, BS Schamp, D Zelený, J Roleček, P Hájková, ... Oikos 116 (8), 1311-1322, 2007 | 44 | 2007 |
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| Scale-dependent plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands: a comparative overview J Dengler, I Biurrun, I Apostolova, E Baumann, T Becker, A Berastegi, ... Bulletin of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group 31, 12-26, 2016 | 22 | 2016 |
| Disjunct occurrences of plant species in the refugial mires of Bulgaria M Hájek, P Hájková, I Apostolova, M Horsák, V Plášek, B Shaw, ... Folia Geobotanica 44 (4), 365-386, 2009 | 19 | 2009 |
| How plot shape and spatial arrangement affect plant species richness counts: implications for sampling design and rarefaction analyses B Güler, A Jentsch, I Apostolova, S Bartha, JMG Bloor, G Campetella, ... Journal of vegetation science 27 (4), 692-703, 2016 | 18 | 2016 |
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