Abstract
The accumulations of snow at the base of slopes and screes, often caused by avalanches, create a habitat of which very little is known. Here we find a highly specialized vegetation completing its entire lifecycle in just 2 months or a little more—between the melting of the snow in June and the first snowfalls at the end of August.
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Pignatti, E., Pignatti, S. (2014). Snowbeds. In: Plant Life of the Dolomites. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31043-0_12
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