Determinants of coastal treeline and the role of abiotic and biotic interactions

Plant Ecology

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-66

  Poulter, Benjamin ^a,b   Qian, Song S ^a   Christensen, Norman L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Fire; Multilevel ANOVA; Sea level rise; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; FIRE; FOREST DYNAMICS; GRASS; LAND USE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SURVEY; SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION; TREELINE;

CLADIUM JAMAICENSE; PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 63949087736     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9465-3     Document Type: Article

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