Altitudinal vegetation belts in the high-Andes of central Chile (33°S) Pisos altitudinales de vegetación en los Andes de Chile central (33°S)

The limits of alpine vegetation belts have been established mainly based on physiognomic criteria. However, a more objective approach for fixing limits of vegetation belts are methods based on species composition and relative abundance of each species. While these methods are more time consuming, th...

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Published in:	Revista Chilena de Historia Natural
Main Authors:	Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Alejandro Peñaloza, Mary Kalin Arroyo
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2000-06-01
Subjects:	pisos altitudinales de vegetación vegetación andina Andes Chile central análisis de agrupamiento altitudinal vegetation belts alpine vegetation central Chile cluster analysis
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2000000200008