Identifying and evaluating causes of alternative community states in wetland plant communities

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 675-686

  Smith, Sigrid D P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WETLAND;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859723484     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19790.x     Document Type: Article

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