Vol. 13, No. 2, Mountain Geoecology of the Andes: Resource Management and Sustainable Development (May, 1993), pp. 203-209 (7 pages) In the Andean desert zone of Chile, three vegetational belts can be ...

Climate change is having a more profound effect on alpine vegetation than at first anticipated, according to a new study. The first ever pan-European study of changing mountain vegetation has found ...

Figure 1: Plant species distribution and vegetation patterns in mountains. Figure 3: The thermophilization indicator D of mountain regions is correlated with temperature change. The transformation of ...

Researchers from 13 countries report clear and statistically significant evidence of a continent-wide warming effect on mountain plant communities in Europe. The decade from 2000 to 2009 was the ...

The summit zone of Mt Kinabalu (4101 m) largely comprises exposed rock, but nevertheless includes in its flora plants with various and geographically distant affinities. The vegetation of the zone has ...

I don’t often recommend plant books, unless they are exceptional, and there are just two important criteria that elevate a book to this category. The book must be informative, and useful in our ...

From satellite images taken over a period of 26 years, a team at the UCO shows how a system of irrigation channels dating back to the Roman Empire increases the water content of the soil adjacent to ...

If you grow any plants in Colorado, your zone is everything! The USDA has just released the 2012 Plant Hardiness Zone Map that could put you in a whole new zone. What is a hardiness zone? The USDA’s ...