Plant community type and small-scale disturbances, but not altitude, influence the invasibility in subarctic ecosystems

New Phytologist

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1002-1011

  Milbau, Ann ^a,b   Shevtsova, Anna ^a,b   Osler, Nora ^a   Mooshammer, Maria ^c   Graae, Bente J ^a,d  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic and alpine ecosystems; Disturbance; Elevation; Empetrum hermaphroditum; Invasibility; Invasion; Subarctic; Tundra

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MEADOW; MIGRATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SCRUB; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SUBARCTIC REGION; TUNDRA;

ALTITUDE; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING;

ALTITUDE; ARCTIC REGIONS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING;

EMPETRUM; EMPETRUM HERMAPHRODITUM; SALIX;

EID: 84872159260     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12054     Document Type: Article

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