Large-scale treeline changes recorded in Siberia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Esper, Jan ^a   Schweingruber, Fritz H ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING;

STEM GROWTH; TREELINE CHANGES; TUNDRA ENVIRONMENTS;

GEOPHYSICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; COLD REGION; GLOBAL WARMING; TREELINE; TUNDRA;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 18544407179     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019178     Document Type: Article

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