Evidence of facilitation cascade processes as drivers of successional patterns of ecosystem engineers at the upper altitudinal limit of the dry Puna

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Malatesta, Luca ^a   Tardella, Federico Maria ^a   Piermarteri, Karina ^a   Catorci, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; CALAMAGROSTIS HETEROPHYLLA; CALAMAGROSTIS RIGIDA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FESCUE; FESTUCA ORTHOPHYLLA; GUANACO; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; PARASTREPHIA LUCIDA; PARASTREPHIA QUADRANGULARIS; PYCNOPHYLLUM MOLLE; PYCNOPHYLLUM WEBERBAUERI; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; UPPER ALTITUDINAL LIMIT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VICUNA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POACEAE; SOIL;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; POACEAE; SOIL;

EID: 85001052345     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167265     Document Type: Article

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