Plant distribution pattern across the forest-tundra ecotone: The importance of treeline position

Ecoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 375-385

  Hofgaard, Annika ^a   Wilmann, Bodil ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Central Norway; Ecological memory; Holocene; Ordination analyses; Species composition; Treeline dynamics

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; FIELD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; TREELINE; TUNDRA; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 0036385226     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2002.11682725     Document Type: Article

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