Hydrochemical regime of fen and bog in north Japanese mires as an influence on habitat and above-ground biomass of Carex species

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1017-1023

  Nakamura, Takatoshi ^a   Uemura, Shigeru ^a   Yabe, Kazuo ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sapporo School of The Arts   (Japan)

Author keywords

Base richness; Canonical discriminant analysis; Mire vegetation; Nitrogen richness; pH

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MIRE; NITROGEN; PH;

EUROPE;

CAREX;

EID: 0036915164     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2002.00726.x     Document Type: Article

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