The impacts of predicted changes in snow regimes on the distribution of alpine vegetation

Snow has been a dominant weather feature which has influenced the occurrence and distribution of plant communities in the Australian Alps. Snowfalls per se are considered to have had little direct influence on the vegetation but it is and has been the responses of plant species to the depth and length of snowpack, and the temperature and moisture regimes which have been associated with the snowfalls over many years, which have given the alpine area its characteristic plant communities and floral landscape. Long term vegetation in any biophysical zone has to endure great ranges in climatic..