Eastern Himalayan alpine plant ecology, Tibetan ethnobotany, and climate change

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-155

  Salick, Jan ^a   Fang, Zhendong ^b   Byg, Anja ^c  

^a MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^b Shangri La Alpine Botanical Garden   (China)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arctic Alpine; Climate change; Himalayas; Plant diversity; Sky islands; Tibetan medicine

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ETHNOBOTANY; EVERGREEN TREE; GRAZING; MEDICINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION TYPE; WOOD;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 67349204517     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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