The influence of cryptogamic crusts on the thermal environment and temperature relations of plants in a high arctic polar desert, Devon N.W.T., Canada

Arctic and Alpine Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 108-120

  Gold, Warren G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLAR FRONT; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

CANADA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

SAXIFRAGA CAESPITOSA; SAXIFRAGA OPPOSITIFOLIA;

EID: 0031807167     PISSN: 00040851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1552125     Document Type: Note

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