Changes in the structure and heterogeneity of vegetation and microsite environments with the chronosequence of primary succession on a glacier foreland in Ellesmere Island, high arctic Canada

Ecological Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 363-370

  Mori, Akira S ^a,b   Osono, Takashi ^a   Uchida, Masaki ^c   Kanda, Hiroshi ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Microsite modification; Polar oasis; Population growth; Salix arctica

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COLONIZATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEGLACIATION; FIELD METHOD; GLACIER; HETEROGENEITY; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MORAINE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

SALIX; SALIX ARCTICA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 40349088862     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-007-0388-6     Document Type: Article

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