Fine-scale changes in vegetation composition in a boreal mire over 50years

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1179-1189

  Kapfer, Jutta ^a   Grytnes, John Arvid ^a   Gunnarsson, Urban ^b   Birks, H John B ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Indicator values; Non permanent plots; Ombrotrophic bog; Plant population and community dynamics; Productivity; Species optimum; Sphagnum; Vegetation dynamics; Weighted averaging

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOG; BOREAL FOREST; DATA SET; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MIRE; MOISTURE CONTENT; MONOCOTYLEDON; MOSS; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OMBROTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PH; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; SHRUB; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SWEDEN;

SCHEUCHZERIA PALUSTRIS; SPHAGNUM; TRICHOPHORUM CESPITOSUM;

EID: 80051734119     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01847.x     Document Type: Article

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