Carbon Isotope Discrimination in Diverging Growth Forms of Saxifraga oppositifolia in Different Successional Stages in a High Arctic Glacier Foreland

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 377-383

  Kume, Atsushi ^a   Bekku, Yukiko S ^b   Hanba, Yuko T ^c   Kanda, Hiroshi ^d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSURU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON ISOTOPE; FRACTIONATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; SUCCESSION;

AY-ALESUND; SPITSBURGEN; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BRYOPHYTA; POACEAE; SAXIFRAGA OPPOSITIFOLIA;

EID: 0142136142     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2003)035[0377:CIDIDG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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