Patterns of plant diversity at high altitudes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Plant Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-7

  Shimono, Ayako ^a,b   Zhou, Huakun ^c   Shen, Haihua ^a   Hirota, Mitsuru ^d   Ohtsuka, Toshiyuki ^e   Tang, Yanhong ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpine plant; Altitudinal gradient; Species composition; Species richness; Specimen bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749282849     PISSN: 17529921     EISSN: 1752993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtq002     Document Type: Article

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