Elevational trends of biodiversity and plant traits do not converge-a test in the Helan Range, NW China

Plant Ecology

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 273-283

  Zhu, Yuan ^a   Jiang, Yuan ^a   Liu, Quanru ^a   Kang, Muyi ^a   Spehn, Eva M ^b   Körner, Christian ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Elevational gradient; Flowering; Mountain climate; Plant functional types; Reproduction; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FLORAL TRAIT; FLOWERING; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORPHOMETRY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HELAN MOUNTAINS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 70350613230     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9616-1     Document Type: Article

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