Tundra vegetation change near Barrow, Alaska (19722010)

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Villarreal, S ^a   Hollister, R D ^b   Johnson, D R ^a   Lara, M J ^a   Webber, P J ^c   Tweedie, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

arctic tundra; climate change; ecosystem change; herbivory; plant community change; plant diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859311020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015508     Document Type: Article

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