Vegetation establishment, succession and microsite frost disturbance on glacier forelands within patterned ground chronosequences

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 145-153

  Haugland, Jake E ^a,b,c   Beatty, Susan W ^a,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c University of Colorado ^*

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e Association of American Geographers

^f Association of American Geographers   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Disturbance; Frost action; Glacier foreland; Lag effect; Little Ice Age; Microsites; Norway; Patterned ground; Succession

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; FROST; LITTLE ICE AGE; PATTERNED GROUND; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SUCCESSION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; JOTUNHEIMEN; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

BRYOPHYTES; CYPERACEAE; POACEAE;

EID: 12744278274     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01175.x     Document Type: Article

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