The influence of grazing and other environmental factors on lichen community structure along an alpine tundra ridge in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, U.S.A.

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 603-613

  St Clair, Larry L ^a   Johansen, Jeffery R ^b   St Clair, Samuel B ^a   Knight, Kathryn B ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRAZING; LICHEN; SNOWMELT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TUNDRA; VASCULAR PLANT;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UINTA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WYOMING;

OVIS ARIES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 36448978243     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(06-071)[STCLAIR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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