A Race for Space? How Sphagnum fuscum stabilizes vegetation composition during long-term climate manipulations

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2162-2171

  Keuper, Frida ^a   Dorrepaal, Ellen ^a,b   Van Bodegom, Peter M ^a   Aerts, Rien ^a   Van Logtestijn, Richard S P ^a   Callaghan, Terry V ^c,d   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bryophyte; Climate change; Diversity; Long term manipulation; Peatland; Resistance; Snow addition; Spring warming; Summer warming; Vascular vegetation composition

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BRYOPHYTE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GROWTH RESPONSE; PEATLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VASCULAR PLANT;

BETULA NANA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EMPETRUM HERMAPHRODITUM; SPHAGNUM; SPHAGNUM FUSCUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79955003716     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02377.x     Document Type: Article

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