Interactive effects of vegetation type and elevation on aboveground and belowground properties in a subarctic tundra

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 128-142

  Sundqvist, Maja K ^a   Giesler, Reiner ^b   Graae, Bente J ^c   Wallander, Håkan ^d   Fogelberg, Elisabeth ^d   Wardle, David A ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MEADOW; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; SUBARCTIC REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TUNDRA; VEGETATION TYPE;

SWEDEN;

EID: 78650201061     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18811.x     Document Type: Article

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