Cumulative impacts on Alaskan arctic tundra of a quarter century of road dust

Ecoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 503-510

  Myers Smith, Isla H ^a,b   Arnesen, Britt K ^a   Thompson, Ross M ^c   Chapin III, F Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cumulative impacts; Oil development; pH; Press disturbance; Road dust; Tundra vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEPOSITION; DUST; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; PH; ROAD; TUNDRA; VEGETATION;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BRYOPHYTA; RUBUS CHAMAEMORUS;

EID: 33846334398     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/1195-6860(2006)13[503:CIOAAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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