The impact of temperature regimes on development, dormancy breaking and germination of dwarf shrub seeds from arctic, alpine and boreal sites

Plant Ecology

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 275-284

  Graae, Bente Jessen ^b   Alsos, Inger Greve ^d,e   Ejrnaes, Rasmus ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Environmental Research Institute   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dormancy; Empetrum hermaphroditum; Reproduction; Seed production; Vaccinium uliginosum

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DORMANCY; ECOTYPE; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEED PRODUCTION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SHRUB; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EMPETRUM HERMAPHRODITUM; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM;

EID: 50849099815     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9403-4     Document Type: Article

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