Influences of microhabitat constraints and rock-climbing disturbance on cliff-face vegetation communities

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 821-832

  Kuntz, Kathryn Lynne ^a   Larson, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cliff vegetation; Disturbance; Microtopography; Niagara Escarpment; Recreation; Rock climbing

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOTA; CLIFF; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; DIVERGENCE; LICHEN; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY; RESEARCH WORK;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; SPORT;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; SPORTS;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33745142879     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00367.x     Document Type: Article

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