Timberline and alpine vegetation on the tropical and warm-temperate oceanic islands of the world: Elevation, structure and floristics

Vegetatio

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 193-206

  Leuschner, Christoph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpine vegetation; Azores; Canary islands; Floristic poverty; Hawaii; Massenerhebung effect; Oceanic islands; R union; Timberline depression; Tropical zone

Indexed keywords

ALPINE VEGETATION; OCEANIC ISLAND; TREE LINE;

ATLANTIC, ATLANTIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC, JUAN FERNANDEZ ISLAND;

EID: 0029661215     PISSN: 00423106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00118271     Document Type: Article

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