Responses of a subarctic dwarf shrub heath community to simulated environmental change

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 315-327

  Press, M C ^a   Potter, J A ^a   Burke, M J W ^a   Callaghan, T V ^a   Lee, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass; Nutrients; Species abundance; Temperature; Water

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; LICHEN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POINT INTERCEPT ANALYSIS; QUADRAT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

DWARF SHRUB HEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SUBARCTIC ECOSYSTEM; TEMPERATURE; WATER SUPPLY;

SWEDEN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CALAMAGROSTIS LAPPONICA; EMPETRUM HERMAPHRODITUM; EMPTETRUM HERMAPHRODITUM; IDAEA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA; VITIS;

EID: 0031835317     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00261.x     Document Type: Article

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