Relationships between geomorphology and vegetation patterns in subantarctic Andean tundra of Tierra del Fuego

Polar Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 404-410

  Brancaleoni, Lisa ^a   Strelin, Jorge ^b   Gerdol, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO ANTÁRTICO ARGENTINO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MICROHABITAT; MORAINE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SLOPE; TALUS; TUNDRA; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ARGENTINA; TIERRA DEL FUEGO PROVINCE;

AZORELLA; AZORELLA LYCOPODIOIDES; BOLAX GUMMIFERA; MARSIPPOSPERMUM; MARSIPPOSPERMUM REICHEI; NARDOPHYLLUM BRYOIDES; NEUROPOGON; NEUROPOGON AURANTIACO-ATER; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0037524325     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-003-0499-7     Document Type: Article

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