Multiscale factors control community and species distribution in mountain peatlands

Botany

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 689-713

  Lemly, Joanna M ^a   Cooper, David J ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonmetric multidimentional scaling (NMS); Peatlands; Rocky mountains; Spatial scale; Variance partitioning; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; BRYOPHYTE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FEN; GEOCHEMISTRY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOUNTAIN REGION; PEATLAND; PH; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 80555138993     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/b11-040     Document Type: Article

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