Productivity-diversity patterns in arctic tundra vegetation

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 331-341

  Virtanen, Risto ^a   Grytnes, John Arvid ^b   Lenoir, Jonathan ^c,d   Luoto, Miska ^e   Oksanen, Jari ^a   Oksanen, Lauri ^f,g   Svenning, Jens Christian ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BRYOPHYTE; GRAIN SIZE; LICHEN; NDVI; SPECIES RICHNESS; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84875365437     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07903.x     Document Type: Article

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