Environment and site descriptions of an ecological baseline study in the Canadian Arctic: The Tundra Northwest Expedition 1999 (Nunavut and Northwest Territories, Canada)

Polarforschung

Volumn 73, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 77-88

  Eriksen, Bente ^a   Bölter, Manfred ^b   Breen, Karen ^c   Henry, Greg ^c   Lévesque, Esther ^d   Mattsson, Jan Eric ^e   Parker, Carolyn L ^f   Rayback, Shelly ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^e SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SURVEY; BIODIVERSITY; VEGETATION;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645939234     PISSN: 00322490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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