Comparative phytosociological investigation of subalpine alder thickets in southwestern Alaska and the North Pacific

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 727-759

  Talbot, Stephen S ^a,b   Talbot, Sandra Looman ^a,c   Daniëls, Fred J A ^a,d  

^a US Fish and Wildlife Service ^*

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beringia; Classification; Northern boreal; Ordination; Sambuco Alnetum viridis; Syntaxonomy

Indexed keywords

PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SYNTAXONOMY; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALNUS VIRIDIS; BETULACEAE; EQUUS ASINUS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 31344452432     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2005/0035-0727     Document Type: Review

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