Functional traits and decomposition of lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants in an alpine ecosystem

• Main Author: van Zuijlen, Kristel
• Other Authors: Asplund, Johan, Klanderud, Kari, Lang, Simone I.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås 2019
• Subjects: Norway; Moser; Alectoria; Cladonia rangiferina
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2652804

Functional traits influence how an organism responds to its environment and how this can affect ecosystem processes such as decomposition. The majority of trait-based studies have focused on vascular plants, while non-vascular primary producers such as lichens and bryophytes are underrepresented in...