Intraseasonal climate and habitat-specific variability controls the flowering phenology of high alpine plant species

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 245-252

  Hülber, Karl ^a,b   Winkler, Manuela ^c   Grabherr, Georg ^b  

^a Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Central European Alps; Climate warming; Snow cover duration; Temperature sum

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLOWERING; GROWING SEASON; HABITAT TYPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOPERIOD; POLLINATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS;

EID: 77950232955     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01645.x     Document Type: Article

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