Substrate form determines the fate of bryophytes in riparian buffer strips

Ecological Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 674-688

  Hylander, Kristoffer ^a   Dynesius, Mats ^a   Jonsson, Bengt Gunnar ^b   Nilsson, Christer ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Boreal forest; Bryophyte; Buffer strip; Edge effect; Liverwort; Moss; Riparian forest; Spatial scale; Sweden

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BRYOPHYTE; BUFFER ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EDGE EFFECT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; RIPARIA;

EID: 15944398705     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0570     Document Type: Article

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