Plant responses to species removal and experimental warming in Alaskan tussock tundra

Oikos

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 417-434

  Hobbie, Sarah E ^a,b   Shevtsova, Anna ^d   Chapin III, F Stuart ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TUNDRA;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

BETULA NANA; CASSIOPE TETRAGONA; ERIOPHORUM VAGINATUM; LEDUM PALUSTRE; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 0032947814     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546421     Document Type: Article

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