Gender variation of Dryas octopetala along snowmelt and latitudinal gradients

• Main Authors: Naoya Wada, Gaku K U M, Satoru Kojima
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Arctic; Latnjajaure; Longyearbyen; Norway; Svalbard; Dryas octopetala; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.564.3155; http://www3.u-toyama.ac.jp/cfes/wada/pdf_papers/Wada%26al1999PB.pdf

Abstract: We describe variations of floral traits of Dryas octopetala L. along a snowmelt gradient within and among three sites: 1) the Subarctic Latnjajaure in northernmost Sweden, 2) the High Arctic Longyearbyen and 3) Ny-Alesund, Svalbard in Norway, also High Arctic. Dryas octopetala had two type...