Responses of alpine snowbed vegetation to long-term experimental warming

Ecoscience

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 150-159

  Sandvik, Sylvi M ^a   Heegaard, Einar ^b   Elven, Reidar ^c   Vandvik, Vigdis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alpine; Climate change response; Late melting snowbed; Open top chamber; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINSE; HORDALAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

CAREX; CAREX LACHENALII; CERASTIUM; DESCHAMPSIA; DESCHAMPSIA ALPINA; EPILOBIUM; EPILOBIUM ANAGALLIDIFOLIUM; JUNCUS; JUNCUS BIGLUMIS; OMALOTHECA; OMALOTHECA SUPINA; POA; POA ALPINA; SALIX; SALIX HERBACEA; SAXIFRAGA; SAXIFRAGA RIVULARIS; SAXIFRAGA STELLARIS; VERONICA; VERONICA ALPINA;

EID: 3943095886     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2004.11682819     Document Type: Article

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