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Patterns and processes in alpine vegetation

Review test

 

  1. Are abiotic factors in the alpine environment more important in determining vegetation patterns than in most lowland environments? If so - why?
     
  2. What is the difference between primary and secondary succession?
    Why is secondary succession in the alpine environment often part of a cyclic process?
     
  3. Why is colonization more difficult in the alpine environment than in the lowlands?
     
  4. Why is facilitation generally more pronounced with increasing altitude?
     

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29 August 2011
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