Plant interactions in alpine tundra: 13 years of experimental removal of dominant species

Ecoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 258-270

  Aksenova, Alexandra A ^a   Onipchenko, Vladimir G ^a   Blinnikov, Mikhail S ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; TUNDRA;

CAUCASUS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANEMONE; ANEMONE SPECIOSA; ANTENNARIA DIOICA; CAREX CARYOPHYLLEA; CAREX SEMPERVIRENS; CAREX UMBROSA; FESTUCA OVINA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM POLYPHYLLUM;

EID: 0032431702     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1998.11682459     Document Type: Article

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