High resilience of bryophyte assemblages in streamside compared to upland forests

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1042-1054

  Dynesius, Mats ^a   Hylander, Kristoffer ^b   Nilsson, Christer ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Bryophyte; Colonization; Disturbance; Extirpation; Forestry; Liverwort; Moss; Resilience; Resistance; Riparian; Sweden

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BOREAL FOREST; BRYOPHYTE; CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; RECOLONIZATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RIPARIAN FOREST; SPATIAL VARIATION; STREAM; SURVIVAL; UPLAND REGION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; MOSS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVER; TREE;

ANIMALS; BRYOPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RIVERS; TREES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 63849207257     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1822.1     Document Type: Article

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