Prediction of vegetation patterns at the limits of plant life: A new view of the alpine-nival ecotone

Arctic and Alpine Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 207-221

  Gottfried, Michael ^a   Pauli, Harald ^a   Grabherr, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ECOTONE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; SNOWLINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRIA; SCHRANKOGEL; TYROL;

EID: 0031752233     PISSN: 00040851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1551968     Document Type: Article

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