Production of biological soil crusts in the early stage of primary succession on a High Arctic glacier foreland

New Phytologist

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 451-460

  Yoshitake, Shinpei ^a   Uchida, Masaki ^b   Koizumi, Hiroshi ^a   Kanda, Hiroshi ^b   Nakatsubo, Takayuki ^c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological soil crusts (BSCs); Global warming; High Arctic; Net primary production (NPP); Photosynthesis; Primary succession

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON CYCLE; DEGLACIATION; GAS EXCHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOISTURE CONTENT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTON FLUX DENSITY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; RESPIRATION; SOIL CRUST; SURFACE AREA;

ARCTIC; NY-ALESUND; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

RAIN;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL RESPIRATION; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; LIGHT; METABOLISM; NORWAY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CELL RESPIRATION; GEOGRAPHY; ICE COVER; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORWAY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANTS; RAIN; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954703374     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03180.x     Document Type: Article

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