Relationships between Arctic shrub dynamics and topographically derived hydrologic characteristics

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Naito, Adam T ^a   Cairns, David M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Arctic; hydrology; riparian vegetation; shrub expansion; topographic wetness index

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355153744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045506     Document Type: Article

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