Predicting treeline elevation in the southern appalachians

Castanea

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 137-146

  Cogbill, Charles V ^a   White, Peter S ^b   Wiser, Susan K ^a,b  

^a RR2 Box 160 ^*  (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TREELINE;

NORTH AMERICA, APPLACHIANS;

EID: 0031399977     PISSN: 00087475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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