Is vegetation inside Carex sempervirens tussocks highly specific or an image of the surrounding vegetation?

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 567-576

  Yu, Fei Hai ^a,b   Krüsi, Bertil ^b,d   Schütz, Martin ^b   Schneller, Jakob ^c   Wildi, Otto ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d University of Applied Sciences Wädenswil HSW   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diversity; Evergreen sedge; Small scale vegetation; Sub alpine grassland; Swiss Alps; Within tussock communities

Indexed keywords

SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TUSSOCK GRASSLAND; VEGETATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAUBUNDEN; SWISS NATIONAL PARK; SWITZERLAND;

CAREX SEMPERVIRENS;

EID: 33845246108     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2006)17[567:IVICST]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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