Impacts of climate change on the tree line

Annals of Botany

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 537-544

  Grace, John ^a   Berninger, Frank ^b   Nagy, Laszlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alpine; Arctic; CO2; Global warming; Krummholz; N deposition; Review; Tree line

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; TREELINE;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036802049     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcf222     Document Type: Review

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