Hydrologic effects on riparian vegetation in a boreal river: An experiment testing climate change predictions

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 254-267

  Ström, Lotta ^a   Jansson, Roland ^a   Nilsson, Christer ^a   Johansson, Mats E ^a   Xiong, Shaojun ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biomass; Climate change; Flooding; Productivity; Reciprocal transplant experiment; River banks; Species composition; Species richness; Water table; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOODING; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; PREDICTION; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER BANK; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSPLANTATION; WATER TABLE; WETLAND;

SWEDEN; VASTERBOTTEN; VINDEL RIVER;

EID: 78649764100     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02230.x     Document Type: Article

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