Single-tree influence on understorey vegetation in a Norwegian boreal spruce forest

Oikos

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 488-498

  Økland, Rune Halvorsen ^a   Rydgren, Knut ^a,b   Økland, Tonje ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; TREE; UNDERSTORY;

PICEA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0033376030     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546813     Document Type: Article

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