Plant population patterns in a glacier foreland succession: pioneer herbs and later‐colonizing shrubs

• Published in: Ecography
• Main Author: Whittaker, Robert J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1993
• Subjects: Norway; Storbreen; Betula nana; Deschampsia alpina; glacier; Poa alpina; Saxifraga cespitosa
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1993.tb00064.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1600-0587.1993.tb00064.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1993.tb00064.x

Glacier forelands provide valuable sites for the study of patterns and processes of primary succession The Storbreen glacier foreland, south‐central Norway, has previously been the subject of a suite of community‐level approaches Here the focus is population‐level studies of six key pioneer plants A...