Strong relationships between vegetation and two perpendicular climate gradients high on a tropical mountain in Hawaii

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1160-1174

  Crausbay, Shelley D ^a   Hotchkiss, Sara C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cloud forest; Compositional turnover; Ecotone; Epiphytes; Forest line; Hawaii; Timber line; Trade wind inversion; Tropical alpine grassland

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD FOREST; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ECOTONE; ELEVATION; EPIPHYTE; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GRASSLAND; LICHEN; MOSS; MOUNTAIN REGION; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TRADE WIND; TREELINE; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

HALEAKALA; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUI; UNITED STATES;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES;

EID: 77954050153     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02277.x     Document Type: Article

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