Kuusisto I., Huttunen S. & Virtanen R.
(2025):
Tundra plant communities along the mesotopographic gradient in NE Finland,
Nordic Journal of Botany,
2025(2): e04430 [12 p.]
In this study, we describe plant communities along the mesotopographic gradient in the low-elevation subcontinental mountains of NE Finland (Utsjoki region). We sampled vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens along 18 mesotopographic ridge-snowbed transects comprising a total of 180 plots. We used non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination with envfit to explore the differentiation of plant communities in relation to mesotopography, elevation, rock cover, cover of bare ground, snowbed …
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