The effect of environmental change on vascular plant and cryptogam communities from the Falkland Islands and the Maritime Antarctic

BMC Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bokhorst, Stef ^a,d   Huiskes, Ad ^a   Convey, Peter ^b   Aerts, Rien ^c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COLD CLIMATE; FALKLAND ISLANDS (MALVINAS); GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; COLD CLIMATE; FALKLAND ISLANDS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PLANTS;

EID: 39049111525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-7-15     Document Type: Article

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