Biogeography

Mediterranean Mountain Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 115-135

  Vogiatzakis, Ioannis N ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Biogeographical in Mediterranean mountains, human activities and climate change; Conservation affecting mountain biodiversity, impact on flora fauna; Geology, and biodiversity richness, endemism from past isolation; Mediterranean mountains, home to endemic herbivores, rare or endangered; Mediterranean mountains, local endemic species, as relicts; Mountain biogeography, orogenesis on biogeography, twofold; Mountain CPD in the Mediterranean; Mountain endemism, discrete orogenies and rare substrates; Mountain top areas in Mediterranean Basin, for relict conifer tree species; Rupicolous chasmophytic vegetation in calcareous, on the High Atlas Mountains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885989300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119941156.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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