Plant Diversity in the Central Great Caucasus: A Quantitative Assessment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nakhutsrishvili, George (Editor), Abdaladze, Otar (Editor), Batsatsashvili, Ketevan (Editor), Spehn, Eva (Editor), Körner, Christian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Geobotany Studies, Basics, Methods and Case Studies,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant ecology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Plant Ecology.

This book presents the first assessment of the high-elevation flora of the Central Caucasus with a community ecology emphasis. Following a geostatistical-climatological description of the region (in comparison to the European Alps), it describes the montane, alpine and nival plant assemblages on the...