A 38-year study of relations between weather and vegetation dynamics in road verges near Bibury, Gloucestershire

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 610-623

  Dunnett, N P ^a   Willis, A J ^a   Hunt, R ^a   Grime, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lamb daily weather types; Long term monitoring; Perennial herbaceous vegetation; Plant weather relations; Principal components analysis

Indexed keywords

UNITED KINGDOM; VEGETATION; WEATHER;

PLANT COMMUNITY; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WEATHER;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0031876086     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00297.x     Document Type: Article

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