A decade of plant species changes on a mire in the italian alps: Vegetation-controlled or climate-driven mechanisms?

Climatic Change

Volumn 77, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 415-429

  Bragazza, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DEPOSITION; OCEAN HABITATS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

CLIMATE-DRIVEN MECHANISMS; MICROHABITAT SCALE; POLYTRICHUM STRICTUM;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACCUMULATION RATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; LITTER; MICROHABITAT; MIRE; MOSS; NICHE; PEAT; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION; WATER TABLE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CAREX LIMOSA; CAREX ROSTRATA; ERIOPHORUM VAGINATUM; POLYTRICHUM STRICTUM; SCHEUCHZERIA PALUSTRIS; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM CAPILLIFOLIUM; SPHAGNUM FALLAX; SPHAGNUM MAGELLANICUM; TRICHOPHORUM CESPITOSUM;

EID: 33748886494     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-9034-x     Document Type: Article

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