Shrub-tree interactions and environmental changes drive treeline dynamics in the Subarctic

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1680-1690

  Grau, Oriol ^a   Ninot, Josep M ^a   Blanco Moreno, José M ^a   van Logtestijn, Richard S P ^b   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^b   Callaghan, Terry V ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HERBIVORY; INSECT; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEEDLING; SHRUB; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBARCTIC REGION; TREELINE; TUNDRA;

SWEDEN;

BETULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; HEXAPODA; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS;

EID: 84866167830     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.20032.x     Document Type: Article

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