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Plant Diversity in the Central Great Caucasus: A Quantitative Assessment

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Abstract

The debate on the origin of the alpine flora of the Caucasus began already at the beginning of the last century. Well-known researchers of the flora and vegetation of this region put forward completely different hypotheses about the age and the mode of formation of the alpine flora of the Caucasus.

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  3. Institute of Ecology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili

  4. Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Eva Spehn

  5. Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Christian Körner

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Nakhutsrishvili, G., Abdaladze, O. (2017). Plant Diversity of the Central Great Caucasus. In: Nakhutsrishvili, G., Abdaladze, O., Batsatsashvili, K., Spehn, E., Körner, C. (eds) Plant Diversity in the Central Great Caucasus: A Quantitative Assessment. Geobotany Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55777-9_3

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