Structure and recent recruitment at alpine forest-pasture ecotones in the Spanish central Pyrenees

Ecoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 451-464

  Camarero, J Julio ^a   Gutiérrez, Emilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate; Detrended canonical correspondence analysis; Ecotone; Global change; Pinus uncinata; Pyrenees; Recruitment; Spatial gradient; Treeline; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

PINUS UNCINATA; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM;

EID: 1642633590     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1999.11682540     Document Type: Article

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