Small-scale plant species distribution in snowbeds and its sensitivity to climate change

Plant Ecology

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 91-104

  Schöb, Christian ^a   Kammer, Peter M ^b   Choler, Philippe ^c   Veit, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Global warming; Gradient analysis; Snowmelt date; Soil temperature; Species categorization; Swiss Alps

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 57349132938     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9435-9     Document Type: Article

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