Vegetation of solid rock faces and fissures of the alpine and subnival zone in the Pamir Alai mountains (Tajikistan, Middle Asia)

Phytocoenologia

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 81-101

  Nowak, Arkadiusz ^a   Nowak, Sylwia ^a   Nobis, Marcin ^b   Nobis, Agnieszka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OPOLE   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alpine vegetation; Asplenietea trichomanis; Chasmophytes; Petrophytes; Syntaxonomy; Tadzhikistan

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FISSURE; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; REFUGE; SYNTAXONOMY; VEGETATION;

PAMIRS; TAJIKISTAN;

EID: 84896947106     PISSN: 0340269X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0340-269X/2014/0044-0573     Document Type: Article

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