Increasing intraspecific facilitation in exposed environments: Consistent results from mountain birch populations in two subarctic stress gradients

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1569-1577

  Eränen, Janne K ^a   Kozlov, Mikhail V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; SIZE EFFECT; SURVIVAL;

EURASIA; KOLA PENINSULA; MURMANSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA;

EID: 52049089453     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16772.x     Document Type: Article

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