Linking habitat modification to catastrophic shifts and vegetation patterns in bogs

Plant Ecology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-68

  Eppinga, Maarten B ^a   Rietkerk, Max ^a   Wassen, Martin J ^a   De Ruiter, Peter C ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternate stable states; Bog model; Climate change; Self organization; Vegetation patchiness; Vegetation switches

Indexed keywords

BOG; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MOSS; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PATCHINESS; SYNERGISM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SPHAGNUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 57349163534     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9309-6     Document Type: Article

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