Tree-limit landscape evolution at the southern fringe of the Swedish Scandes (Dalarna province) - Holocene and 20th century perspectives

Fennia

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 73-94

  Kullman, Leif ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; HOLOCENE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

DALARNA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

ABIES; BETULA PUBESCENS; CORYLUS; CORYLUS AVELLANA; LARIX; LARIX SIBIRICA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 17844364927     PISSN: 00150010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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