Short-term effects of simulated environmental change on phenology, leaf traits, and shoot growth of alpine plants on a temperate mountain, northern Japan

Global Change Biology

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1997, Pages 108-115

  Suzuki, S ^a   Kudo, G ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circumpolar plants; Open top chamber; Season length; Temperate alpine; Warming effects

Indexed keywords

ALPINE PLANT; CLIMATIC CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; LEAF CHARACTERISTICS; PHENOLOGY; SHOOT GROWTH;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; TAISETSU MOUNTAINS;

ARCTOUS ALPINUS; EMPETRACEAE; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; ERICACEAE; LEDUM PALUSTRE; VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA;

EID: 0031395572     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.1997.gcb146.x     Document Type: Article

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