Upward shift of alpine plants increases floristic similarity of mountain summits

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 711-718

  Jurasinski, Gerald ^a   Kreyling, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bernina; Beta diversity; Climate change; Heterogeneity; Long term monitoring; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Similarity; Species composition; Swiss Alps

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MOUNTAIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 34848859852     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2007)18[711:USOAPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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