The alpine treeline under changing land use and changing climate: Approach and preliminary results from continental Norway

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 183-193

  Löffler, Jörg ^a   Lundberg, Anders ^b   Rössler, Ole ^a   Bräuning, Achim ^c   Jung, Gernot ^a   Pape, Roland ^a   Wundram, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; High mountains; Land use changes; Norway; Treeline analysis

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAZING PRESSURE; LAND USE CHANGE; TREELINE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; OPPLAND; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

EID: 11144296963     PISSN: 00291951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00291950410002421     Document Type: Article

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