The study is based on the typical structural particularities — rather exceptional for temperate Europe — of the alluvial forest overgrowing the upper Rhine rift valley. The examined plant community is the alluvial hardwood flood-forest (Fraxino-UlmetumOberdorfer 1953), the only one that answers this criterium of originality, as it is developed in the floodplain at the …
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