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The extreme limits of herbaceous vegetation, in general discontinuous, at an elevation of 2,400–2,700 m, are at the edge of survival for a plant community. And yet, even in this habitat, we are faced with a highly diversified flora which is connected with the evolution at the margin of the Quaternary glacier and with the Arctic and Altaic flora.
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Pignatti, E., Pignatti, S. (2014). Pioneer Patches and Discontinuous Vegetation of Ridges and Peak Habitats. In: Plant Life of the Dolomites. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31043-0_11
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