Alpine steppe plant communities of the Tibetan highlands

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 547-560

  Miehe, Georg ^a   Bach, Kerstin ^a   Miehe, Sabine ^a   Kluge, Jürgen ^a   Yongping, Yang ^b   Duo, La ^c   Co, Sonam ^c   Wesche, Karsten ^d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpine desert; Endemics; Grazing; Plant functional types; Qinghai Tibet Plateau; Steppe

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052494895     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2011.01147.x     Document Type: Article

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