The importance of date of snowmelt for the separation of different oligotrophic and mesotrophic mountain vegetation types in Southern Norway

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 3-21

  Odland, Arvid ^a   Munkejord, Hans Kristian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Altitude; Classification; Climate change; Ordination; Snowmelt; Soil temperature

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ORDINATION; SNOWMELT; SOIL TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION TYPE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 52049118334     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2008/0038-0003     Document Type: Article

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