Spatial patterns and temporal trajectories of the bog ground layer along a post-fire chronosequence

Ecosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1054-1064

  Benscoter, Brian W ^a,c   Vitt, Dale H ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bog; Community; Ecosystem; Fire; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Peatland; Succession; Trajectory analysis

Indexed keywords

BOG; BOREAL FOREST; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MOSS; PEATLAND; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAJECTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

BRYOPHYTA; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI; POLYTRICHUM STRICTUM; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM FUSCUM;

EID: 55149110925     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-008-9178-4     Document Type: Article

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