Geographic flora elements in the Ecuadorian superpáramo

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-61

  Sklenář, Petr ^a   Balslev, Henrik ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Altitudinal flora samples; Andes; Humidity p ramo types; Phytogeography; Tropical alpine

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; FLORA; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOLARCTIC REGION; PARAMO; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANDES; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33846261922     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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