What determines the timberline?

Fennia

Volumn 180, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 67-74

  Heikkinen, Olavi ^a   Tuovinen, Mervi ^a   Autio, Jyrki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; COLD REGION; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; TREELINE;

(NORTH); FINLAND;

ABIES; BETULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0036914102     PISSN: 00150010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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