Environmental perturbation, grazing pressure and soil wetness jointly drive mountain tundra toward divergent alternative states

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1661-1672

  Saccone, Patrick ^a   Pyykkonen, Tuija ^a   Eskelinen, Anu ^a,b   Virtanen, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative states; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Diversity; Herbivory; Joint effects; Long term experiment; Multiple drivers; Species abundance distribution; Tundra shrubification

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; ABUNDANCE; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DICOTYLEDON; DIVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERBIVORY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAMMAL; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSPLANTATION; TUNDRA; WATERLOGGING;

FENNOSCANDIA;

BRYOPHYTES; MAMMALIA; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS;

EID: 84939419130     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12316     Document Type: Article

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