Broad-scale vegetation-environment relationships in Eurasian high-latitude areas

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 519-528

  Virtanen, Risto ^a   Oksanen, Jari ^a   Oksanen, Lauri ^b   Razzhivin, Vladimir Yu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c KOMAROV BOTANICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Climate; Complex gradient; Ecocline; Eurasian Arctic; Grazing; Multivariate analysis; Ordination; Soil nutrients; Soil pH

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; GRAZING; LATITUDE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL PROPERTY; TUNDRA; VEGETATION;

EURASIA;

EID: 33749569220     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2006)17[519:BVRIEH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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