Alpine debris-covered glaciers as a habitat for plant life

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1011-1020

  Caccianiga, Marco ^a   Andreis, Carlo ^a   Diolaiuti, Guglielmina ^a   D'Agata, Carlo ^a   Mihalcea, Claudia ^a   Smiraglia, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alpine biogeography; Alpine flora; Miage Glacier; pioneer vegetation; refugia; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL DEBRIS; GROWTH RESPONSE; HOLOCENE; HOST PLANT; ICE THICKNESS; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFUGIUM; SHRUB; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION HISTORY; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ALPS; ITALY; MIAGE GLACIER; VALLE D'AOSTA; WESTERN ALPS;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 80051897215     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611400219     Document Type: Article

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