Vegetation dynamics at the upper elevational limit of vascular plants in Himalaya

J Dolezal, M Dvorsky, M Kopecky, P Liancourt… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
plant migration processes, physiological limits and diversity changes 4,5,15 . Here, we
explore the vegetation dynamics … rapidly warming region in the NW Himalayas, to test the ‘upward …

An experimental assessment of the upper elevational limit of flowering plants in the western Himalayas

L Klimeš, J Doležal - Ecography, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… We examined the position of the upper elevational limits of vascular plants in E Ladakh, …
belt with sparse plant cover), to 6030 m (the highest elevation reached by vascular plants in the …

Vascular plants at extreme elevations in eastern Ladakh, northwest Himalayas

M Dvorský, J Altman, M Kopecký… - Plant Ecology & …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
… Relationships between mean trait values and elevational optima (highest frequency of
occurrence) of plant species from subnival vegetation in E Ladakh: maximum plant height, ethanol…

Distribution of vascular plant species richness and endemic richness along the Himalayan elevation gradient in Nepal

OR Vetaas, JA Grytnes - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… and elevational ranges of the Nepalese flora to interpolate presence between maximum
Results The interval of maximum species endemic to Nepal or the Himalayas (3800–4200 m…

Functional diversity along elevational gradients in the high altitude vegetation of the western Himalaya

D Thakur, A Chawla - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2019 - Springer
limits of vascular plants and Dolezal et al. (2016) analysed vegetation dynamics at the
uppermost growing limit of plants in Eastern Ladakh region and reported up migration of plants. …

Plant richness pattern in an elevation gradient in the Eastern Himalaya

N Sharma, MD Behera, AP Das, RM Panda - Biodiversity and …, 2019 - Springer
… in the Eastern Himalaya to study plant richness pattern of vascular plants along an elevation
… might attribute to their existence beyond this elevational limit, which is most likely to be …

High-elevation limits and the ecology of high-elevation vascular plants: legacies from Alexander von Humboldt

HJB Birks - Frontiers of Biogeography, 2021 - escholarship.org
vascular plants occurring up to 6000 m in the Himalaya, laid … the high-elevational limits
of vascular plants in different … (2016) Vegetation dynamics at the upper elevational limit of …

[PDF][PDF] Vegetation dynamics in the Western Himalayas, diversity indices and climate change

SM Khan, S Page, H Ahmad, H Shaheen… - Sci., Tech. and …, 2012 - researchgate.net
… It gives overall abundance of vascular plants on one hand … Species preferred temperatures
in higher altitudinal zones. … from the south and limit its saturation into upper northern parts. …

12 The Himalayan Vegetation along Horizontal and Vertical Gradients

GS Rawat - Bird migration across the Himalayas: wetland …, 2017 - books.google.com
altitudinal gradients in the western Himalayas. It has been established that moist meadows of
the Greater Himalayas and dry alpine pastures of the TransHimalaya … its lower limit that lies …

The environmental control of plant species density on a Himalayan elevation gradient

C Carpenter - Journal of Biogeography, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Vascular plants are appropriate for the study of species … in the Indian Himalayas because
Nepal was largely off-limits to … stem size shows a significant elevational trend, although basal …