Changes in live plant biomass, primary production, and species composition along a riverside toposequence in Arctic Alaska, U.S.A.

Arctic and Alpine Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 363-379

  Shaver, G R ^a   Laundre, J A ^a   Giblin, A E ^a   Nadelhoffer, K J ^a  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

USA, ALASKA;

EQUISETUM;

EID: 0029660716     PISSN: 00040851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1552116     Document Type: Article

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