Relationships among environmental factors, vegetation zones, and species richness in a North American Calcareous prairie fen

Wetlands

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 685-696

  Bowles, Marlin L ^a   Kelsey, Patrick D ^b   McBride, Jenny L ^a  

^a MORTON ARBORETUM   (United States)

^b Christopher B Burke Engineering Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcareous fen; Environmental gradient; Floristic gradient; Gradient analysis; Prairie fen; Unimodal (hump back) species distribution; Vegetation zones

Indexed keywords

FEN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEATLAND; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; ZONATION;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749465240     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2005)025[0685:RAEFVZ]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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