Ecological Bulletins, Plant Ecology in the Sub-Artic Sedish Lapland [Hardcover]

After 23 formative and producive years as Director of the Abisko Scientific Research Station, Mats Sonesson will retire from his duties. To honour Mats, to celebrate his career, and to thank him for all that he has done to enhance our research, we have asked those scientists who have worked at Abisko within the subject areas closest to Mats' interests, to contribute to this Festschrift which overviews the ecology and environment of the Tornetrask region. Twenty-three chapters written by 41 scientists from 10 countries have been contributed.Preface P. S. Karlsson and T. V. Callaghan.

Introduction The Abisko Scientific Research Station.

N. ?. Andersson, T. V. Callaghan and P. S. Karlsson.

Subarctic plant communities and their environment.

Holocene forest dynamics and climate changes in the Abisko area, northern Sweden - the Sonesson model of vegetation history reconsidered and confirmed B. E. Berglund, L. Barnekow, D. Hammarlund, P. Sandgren and I. F. Snowball.

Modelling and measuring evapotranspiration in a mountain birch forest M. Ovhed and B. Holmgren.

The resource economy of subarctic plants and ecosystems.

Nutrient cycling in subarctic and arctic ecosystems, with special reference to the Abisko and Tornetrask region S. Jonasson and A. Michelsen.

Resource dynamics within arctic clonal plants I. S. Jonsdottir, T. V. Callaghan and A. D. Headley.

Treeline ecology of mountain birch in the Tornetrask area B. Sveinbjornsson, H. Kauhanen and O. Nordell.

Relationships between nitrogen economy and performance in the mountain birch Betula pubescens ssp. Tortuosa P. S. Karlsson and M. Weih.

Peat formation and mass balance in subarctic ombrotrophic peatlands around Abisko, northern Scandinavia N. Malmer and B. Wallen.

A cross-continental comparison of phenology,l“$