Frequent sexual reproduction and high intraspecific variation in Salix arctica: Implications for a terrestrial feedback to climate change in the High Arctic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Steltzer, Heidi ^d   Hufbauer, Ruth A ^d   Welker, Jeffery M ^a   Casalis, Maxime ^b   Sullivan, Patrick F ^a   Chimner, Rodney ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b Les Millets   (France)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHLOROPLAST; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; GENETIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NET ECOSYSTEM EXCHANGE; PHENOTYPE; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

SALIX; SALIX ARCTICA;

EID: 69549110188     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JG000503     Document Type: Article

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