The oldest monitoring site of the Alps revisited: Accelerated increase in plant species richness on Piz Linard summit since 1835

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 447-455

  Wipf, Sonja ^a   Stöckli, Veronika ^a   Herz, Kristina ^a   Rixen, Christian ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

alpine flora; climate warming; environmental change; long term monitoring; summit flora; Switzerland; vegetation change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885069926     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2013.764943     Document Type: Article

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