Primary succession of high-altitude Andean vegetation on lahars of Volcán Cotopaxi, Ecuador

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-28

  Sklenar P ^a   Kovar P ^a   Palice, Z ^a   Stancik D ^a   Soldan Z ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Community diversity; Equatorial andes; P ramo; Plant growth forms; Tropical alpine; Volcanic disturbance.

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BRYOPHYTE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; LAHAR; LICHEN; PARAMO; PIONEER SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ANDES; COTOPAXI VOLCANO; ECUADOR;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; DICOTYLEDONEAE; GYMNOSPERMAE; LILIOPSIDA; POACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77953676532     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2010/0040-0442     Document Type: Article

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