Inter-relationships between treeline position, species diversity, land use and climate change in the central Scandes Mountains of Norway

Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 419-429

  Hofgaard, Annika ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b ANS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Grazing pressure; Land use; Norway; Species diversity; Treeline dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001722697     PISSN: 09607447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2997351     Document Type: Article

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