Plant performance and soil nitrogen mineralization in response to simulated climate change in subarctic dwarf shrub heath

Oikos

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 331-343

  Hartley, Anne E ^a   Neill, Christopher ^a   Melillo, Jerry M ^a   Crabtree, Rose ^a   Bowles, Francis P ^a  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; GLOBAL WARMING; PHENOLOGY; VEGETATION COVER;

EMPETRUM HERMAPHRODITUM; IDAEA; MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS; VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM; VACCINIUM VITIS IDAEA; VACCINIUM VITIS-IDAEA; VITIS SP.;

EID: 0032866876     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546450     Document Type: Article

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