Long-term experimental warming affects tissue C/N ratios differently in three strongly chionophilous alpine species

Global Warming in the 21st Century

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 187-198

  Sandvik, Sylvi M ^a   Eide, Wenche ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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