Greater nitrogen and/or phosphorus availability increase plant species' cover and diversity at a High Arctic polar semidesert

Polar Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 559-570

  Madan, Nanette J ^a   Deacon, Lewis J ^b   Robinson, Clare H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bare ground; Bryophytes; Colonisation; Diversity; High Arctic; N deposition; P availability; Polar semidesert; Seed bank

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; BARE SOIL; COLONIZATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHOSPHORUS; SEED BANK; SOIL BIOTA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; BRYUM ARCTICUM; DRABA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SAGINA NIVALIS; SALIX; SALIX POLARIS; SAXIFRAGA CAESPITOSA; SAXIFRAGA OPPOSITIFOLIA; SCHISTIDIUM APOCARPUM;

EID: 33847702154     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-006-0213-7     Document Type: Article

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