Critical periods for impact of climate warming on early seedling establishment in subarctic tundra

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2662-2680

  Shevtsova, Anna ^a   Graae, Bente Jessen ^b   Jochum, Till ^b,c   Milbau, Ann ^a,b   Kockelbergh, Fred ^a   Beyens, Louis ^d   Nijs, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d Research Group Polar Ecology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; FATI; Median germination time; Mortality; Precipitation; Recruitment; Regeneration from seedlings; Seed germination; Seedling establishment

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GERMINATION; HEATING; MORTALITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SUBARCTIC REGION; SUMMER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TUNDRA;

EID: 66749131923     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01947.x     Document Type: Article

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