Spatial variation of mire surface water chemistry and vegetation in northeastern Finland

Annales Botanici Fennici

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 235-251

  Tahvanainen, Teemu ^a   Sallantaus, Tapani ^a   Heikkilä, Raimo ^a   Tolonen, Kimmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bryophytes; Ecohydrology; Organic acidity; pH; Poor rich gradient

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036407155     PISSN: 00033847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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