Climate change - Bad news for montane forest herb layer species?

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 10-19

  Patsias, Kathrin ^a   Bruelheide, Helge ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calamagrostis villosa; Common garden experiment; Gap dynamics; Phenotypic plasticity; Trientalis europaea; Vaccinium myrtillus

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; CLIMATE EFFECT; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAP DYNAMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASS; HERB; HERBIVORY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MONTANE FOREST; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SHRUB; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

GERMANY;

EID: 84877343263     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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