Growth and reproductive responses of Cassiope tetragona, a circumpolar evergreen shrub, to experimentally delayed snowmelt

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 404-409

  Mallik, Azim ^a   Wdowiak, Julia ^a   Cooper, Elisabeth ^b  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GERMINATION; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REPRODUCTION; SEED; SHRUB; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT;

ADVENTDALEN; ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

CASSIOPE TETRAGONA;

EID: 80052190883     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-43.3.404     Document Type: Article

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