Using turfs to facilitate recovery in a low-alpine environment. - What matters?

• Main Author: Mehlhoop, Anne C.
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Low-alpine ecosystems; vegetation restoration; turf transplants; Dovrefjell; ecosystem management; Lavalpin vegetasjon; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480; Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2446103

Establishment and survival of plants in low-alpine ecosystems depend strongly on local environmental conditions, as for example nutrient availability and especially temperature. Some of these conditions are rather unpredictable in high-elevation environments, due to short and irregular growing seaso...