Forest floor vegetation response to nitrogen deposition in Europe

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 429-440

  Dirnböck, Thomas ^a   Grandin, Ulf ^b   Bernhardt Römermann, Markus ^c   Beudert, Burkhardt ^d   Canullo, Roberto ^e   Forsius, Martin ^f   Grabner, Maria Theresia ^a   Holmberg, Maria ^f   Kleemola, Sirpa ^f   Lundin, Lars ^b   Mirtl, Michael ^a   Neumann, Markus ^g   Pompei, Enrico ^h   Salemaa, Maija ⁱ   Starlinger, Franz ^g   Staszewski, Tomasz ^j   Uzieblo, Aldona Katarzyna ^k  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d National Park Bayrischer Wald   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^f FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^h Devision Forest Monitoring ^*  (Italy)

ⁱ FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^j INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL AREAS   (Poland)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

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Author keywords

Air pollution; Critical load; Eutrophication; Long term ecological research; Monitoring; Plant species diversity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CRITICAL LOAD; EUTROPHICATION; FOREST FLOOR; NITROGEN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION;

FENNOSCANDIA; ITALY;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

NITROGEN;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CRITICAL LOAD; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; EUTROPHICATION; LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH; METABOLISM; MONITORING; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AIR POLLUTION; CRITICAL LOAD; EUTROPHICATION; LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH; MONITORING; PLANT SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84891664845     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12440     Document Type: Article

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