Downhill shift of alpine plant assemblages under contemporary climate and land‐use changes

Downhill shift of alpine plant assemblages under contemporary climate and land‐use changes

Abstract Compositional changes in Himalayan vegetation in response to the major drivers of biodiversity loss, climate change and land‐use change, are barely documented. We quantify temporal changes in the alpine vegetation of central Nepal and attribute these changes to temporally varying climatic a...

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Main Authors: Kuber Prasad Bhatta, John‐Arvid Grytnes, Ole Reidar Vetaas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Ecosphere
Subjects:
alpine vegetation
climate change
grazing
Himalaya
land‐use change
ordination analysis
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2084

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