Four decades of plant community change in the alpine tundra of southwest Yukon, Canada

Ambio

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 660-671

  Danby, Ryan K ^a   Koh, Saewan ^b   Hik, David S ^b   Price, Larry W ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic alpine; Climate change; Community ecology; Tundra; Yukon

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DENDROECOLOGY; FIELD SURVEY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; TUNDRA;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT; TIME;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANTS; TIME FACTORS; YUKON TERRITORY;

CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 80052533050     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-011-0172-2     Document Type: Article

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