Comparative cryptogam ecology: A review of bryophyte and lichen traits that drive biogeochemistry

Annals of Botany

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 987-1001

  Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^a   Lang, Simone I ^a   Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A ^a   During, Heinjo J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical processes; Carbon; Cryptogam; Decomposition; Defence; Functional trait; Growth rate; Interspecific variation; Lichen; Liverwort; Moss; Nutrients

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BRYOPHYTE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LICHEN;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; LICHENS; METABOLISM; MOSS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SOIL;

BRYOPHYTA; CARBON; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; LICHENS; NITROGEN FIXATION; SOIL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 34548458597     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm030     Document Type: Review

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