Competition and facilitation in industrial barrens: Variation in performance of mountain birch seedlings with distance from nurse plants

Chemosphere

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1088-1095

  Eränen, Janne K ^a   Kozlov, Mikhail V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii; Nurse effect; Pollution; Reforestation; Shelter

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; REFORESTATION; SEED; SOILS;

BETULA PUBESCENS SSP. CZEREPANOVII; NURSE EFFECTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

COPPER; NICKEL;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFORESTATION; SEED; SOILS;

BIOMONITORING; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACILITATION; GROWTH; NURSE PLANT; POLLUTION; REFORESTATION; SEEDLING; SHELTER; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BIRCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; POLLUTANT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEEDLING; SMELTER; SOIL WATER CONTENT; STRESS; SURVIVAL; TREE; WIND;

E I S; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; SEEDS; SHELTERS; SOIL;

EURASIA; MONCHEGORSK; MURMANSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA;

EID: 33846595599     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.11.048     Document Type: Article

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