Changes in paramo vegetation along an elevation gradient in southern Ecuador

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-175

  Keating, Philip L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Andes; Biogeography; Ecuador; Paramo; Tropical ecology

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELEVATION;

ECUADOR; PODOCARPUS NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AMERICA;

PODOCARPUS; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0033120999     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997292     Document Type: Article

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