Effects of disturbance on plant regrowth along snow pack gradients in alpine habitats

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1345-1355

  Evju, Marianne ^a   Hagen, Dagmar ^a   Hofgaard, Annika ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate gradients; Experimental perturbation; Linear effect models; Ordination analyses; Plant growth form; Revegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863635204     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: 15735052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-012-0094-5     Document Type: Article

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