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The local distributions of alpine plant species are the result of complex
interactions among many factors such as:
- type of soil
- soil water availability
- soil temperature
- wind
- snow depth
- duration of snow cover
- length of growing season
- microclimate
- disturbance
- dispersal
- interactions among plant species
Community development in alpine areas is far from being a uniform process: abrupt
topographic changes at different scales and many types of disturbance
acting at different spatial
and temporal scales provide for a wide range of trajectories that community succession can take.
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