Extrapolating multi-decadal plant community changes based on medium-term experiments can be risky: Evidence from high-latitude tundra

Oikos

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 76-85

  Saccone, Patrick ^a   Virtanen, Risto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRYOPHYTE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DECADAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HERBIVORE; LATITUDE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAMMAL; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SHRUB; TRAJECTORY; TUNDRA;

FENNOSCANDIA;

BRYOPHYTES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84960501601     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.02399     Document Type: Article

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