Plant species' range shifts in mountainous areas-all uphill from here?

Botanica Helvetica

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 117-128

  Frei, Esther ^a,b   Bodin, Jeanne ^c,d   Walther, Gian Reto ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d LERFoB   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^f Bundesamt fur Umweltschutz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine; Biogeography; Engadine; Global warming; Monitoring; Range margin; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION RISK; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RANGE SIZE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78349309155     PISSN: 02531453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00035-010-0076-y     Document Type: Article

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