Diversity of forest vegetation across a strong gradient of climatic continentality: Western Sayan Mountains, southern Siberia

Plant Ecology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-83

  Chytrý, Milan ^a   Danihelka, Jiří ^a,b   Kubešová, Svatava ^a,c   Lustyk, Pavel ^a   Ermakov, Nikolai ^d   Hájek, Michal ^a,b   Hájková, Petra ^a,b   Kočí, Martin ^a   Otýpková, Zdenka ^a   Roleček, Jan ^a   Řezníčková, Marcela ^a   Šmarda, Petr ^a   Valachovič, Milan ^e   Popov, Denis ^f   Pišút, Ivan ^e  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^e INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Slovakia)

^f INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Classification; Hemiboreal forest; Ordination; Soil pH; Species response curve; Taiga; Vegetation environment relationships

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ORDINATION; PH; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAYAN MOUNTAINS; SIBERIA;

ABIES; ABIES SIBIRICA; BETULA PENDULA; LARIX; LARIX SIBIRICA; PICEA; PICEA OBOVATA; PINUS SIBIRICA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULUS TREMULA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 41549162929     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9335-4     Document Type: Article

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