Vegetation biodiversity in the cryoromediterranean belt of Sierra Nevada

Abstract

Some of the results from the Digital cartography of the cryoromediterranean vegetation to scale 1:10000 are shown in this paper. It was done on the extension of 8788.6 ha and includes the cryoromediterranean and a part of the oromediterranean belt. The first one represents a territorial domain with an extension of 3875.7 ha and its limits range between 2750 m, in the northern and western zones, and 3290 m, in the southern and oriental zones. We have realised that mainly through the study of the distribution in climatophilous plant associations, which have served as references to draw the line that frames the current cryoromediterranean conditions. In this respect, we gathered data about the area that each association occupied and some additional information. © 2010, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.