Air and soil frost indices in relation to plant mortality in elevated clear-felled terrain in Central Sweden

Climate Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-75

  Lindkvist, L ^a   Chen, D ^b  

^a Box 343   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Air frost; Complex terrain; High elevation; Plant mortality; Soil frost; Temperature indices; Vegetative period

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FROST; GROWING SEASON; MORTALITY; PLANT; TEMPERATURE;

SCANDES; SWEDEN;

EID: 0033563613     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr012065     Document Type: Article

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