Do you have in your scientific networks examples of vegetation inversions due to topography or ecosystemic evolution?

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Andrew Paul McKenzie Pegman

Evolution does not cause vegetation inversion, but landscape and topography processes do. Evolution is defined as change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations :)

Pietro Brandmayr

Topography inversions are frequent in karstic landscapes, where deep erosion forms (e,g.: dolines) may guest vegetation of higher altitudinal belts. In such conditions inversion could generate population isolation and evolution, also in animals living there.

Philippe Joseph

Thank you for your remarks. When I speak of evolution I do not speak of genetic evolution. My remarks consider the evolution of the ecosystem linked to the process of self-organization of vegetation in relation to time and space: this refers to chorology and plant succession.