Modeling the location of the forest line in northeast European Russia with remotely sensed vegetation and GIS-based climate and terrain data

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 314-322

  Virtanen, Tarmo ^a,f   Mikkola, Kari ^a   Nikula, Ari ^a   Christensen, Jens H ^b   Mazhitova, Galina G ^c   Oberman, Naum G ^d   Kuhry, Peter ^e  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d MIREKO Company   (Russian Federation)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; PERMAFROST; REMOTE SENSING; TREELINE; VEGETATION MAPPING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

PICEA;

EID: 12444319421     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2004)036[0314:MTLOTF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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