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Laurophyllisation — A Sign of a Changing Climate?

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Biomonitoring: General and Applied Aspects on Regional and Global Scales

Part of the book series: Tasks for vegetation science ((TAVS,volume 35))

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Evergreen broad-leaved plants have been cultivated in Switzerland for more than 200 years. Only in the last decades about a dozen of these species succeeded in escaping from the gardens and in spreading into the surrounding forests. Meanwhile, they have grown up to the tree layer and must be considered presently as naturalized. Former deciduous forest transformed into evergreen deciduous broad-leaved mixed forest. As temperature is the major climatic determinant for species distribution, particularly limiting the distribution of evergreen towards deciduous vegetation, the possible link between these vegetation shifts and climatic change is discussed.

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Walther, GR. (2001). Laurophyllisation — A Sign of a Changing Climate?. In: Burga, C.A., Kratochwil, A. (eds) Biomonitoring: General and Applied Aspects on Regional and Global Scales. Tasks for vegetation science, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9686-2_13

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