Chemical property of live and dead leaves of tundra plant species in Oobloyah Valley, Ellesmere Island, high arctic Canada

Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue

Volumn , Issue 59, 2006, Pages 144-155

  Osono, Takashi ^a   Mori, Akira ^a   Uchida, Masaki ^b,c   Kanda, Hiroshi ^b,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glacier foreland; Leaf; Lignin; Nitrogen; Phosphorus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745759473     PISSN: 03860744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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