Early recruitment equals long-term relative abundance in an alpine saxicolous lichen guild

Mycologia

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 207-214

  Hestmark, Geir ^a   Skogesal, Olav ^a   Skullerud, Øystein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Disturbance; Glacier forelands; Population dynamics; Primary colonization

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; GROWTH RATE; GUILD; LICHEN; LONG-TERM CHANGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BACTERIAL COUNT; CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LICHENS; MICROBIOLOGY; NORWAY; TIME;

ASCOMYCOTA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; LICHENS; NORWAY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

UMBILICARIA;

EID: 34547152124     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/mycologia.99.2.207     Document Type: Article

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