Vegetation of eastern Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Botany

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 366-388

  Talbot, Stephen S ^a   Schofield, Wilfred B ^b   Talbot, Sandra L ^c   Daniëls, Fred J A ^d  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community classification; Heath; Meadow; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling; Northern boreal; Phytogeography

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; MEADOW; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTAXONOMY;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; FOX ISLANDS; UNALASKA ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

ACONITUM; ACONITUM MAXIMUM; ATHYRIUM FILIX-FEMINA; CALAMAGROSTIS NUTKAENSIS; CAREX NIGRICANS; CAREX PLURIFLORA; EMPETRUM NIGRUM; ERIGERON; ERIGERON PEREGRINUS; HONCKENYA PEPLOIDES; LEYMUS MOLLIS; LINNAEA BOREALIS; PHYLLODOCE ALEUTICA; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO MACROCARPA; SALIX; SALIX BARCLAYI; THAMNOLIA VERMICULARIS; THELYPTERIS QUELPAERTENSIS; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM ULIGINOSUM;

EID: 77952215874     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B09-113     Document Type: Article

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