Signals of range expansions and contractions of vascular plants in the high Alps: Observations (1994-2004) at the GLORIA *master site Schrankogel, Tyrol, Austria

Global Change Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 147-156

  Pauli, Harald ^a   Gottfried, Michael ^a   Reiter, Karl ^a   Klettner, Christian ^a   Grabherr, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine nival ecotone; Climate warming; High mountain plants; Long term monitoring; Migration; Peripheral populations; Plant diversity; Species decline; Species richness; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

ECOTONE; GLOBAL WARMING; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; TYROL;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33846208297     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01282.x     Document Type: Review

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