Ecosystem development on terraces along the Kugururok River, northwest Alaska

Ecoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 311-318

  Binkley, Dan ^a   Suarez, Frank ^a   Stottlemyer, Robert ^b   Caldwell, Bruce ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Picea glauca; Populus balsamifera; Primary succession; Shepherdia canadensis

Indexed keywords

ALCES ALCES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; POPULUS; POPULUS BALSAMIFERA; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS; SALIX; SHEPHERDIA CANADENSIS;

EID: 0001423919     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1997.11682410     Document Type: Article

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