Impact of grazing and neighbour removal on a heath plant community transplanted onto a snowbed site, NW Finnish Lapland

Oikos

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 359-367

  Virtanen, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAZING; HEALTHLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SNOWBED;

FINLAND; LAPLAND;

ASTERACEAE; DESCHAMPSIA FLEXUOSA; ERICACEAE; POACEAE; SOLIDAGO VIRGAUREA; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS;

EID: 0031887014     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3547056     Document Type: Article

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