Altitudinal distribution patterns of bryophytes in the Canary Islands and vulnerability to climate change

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 206, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 769-781

  Lloret, Francisco ^a   González Mancebo, Juana María ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud forest; Global change; Island ecology; Macaronesia; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BRYOPHYTE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD FOREST; ELEVATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; ISOTHERM; MOSS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE; VULNERABILITY;

CANARY ISLANDS; SPAIN;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; MARCHANTIOPHYTA;

EID: 80052417267     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2011.04.007     Document Type: Article

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