Relationships between vegetation patterns and periglacial landforms in northwestern Svalbard

Polar Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 562-571

  Cannone, Nicoletta ^a   Guglielmin, Mauro ^b   Gerdol, Renato ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOMONITORING; CLIMATE CHANGE; PERIGLACIAL LANDFORM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC; NY-ALESUND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 4544338945     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-004-0622-4     Document Type: Article

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