The impact of elevation, topography and snow load damage of trees on the position of the actual timberline on the fells in central Finnish Lapland

Fennia

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-36

  Autio, Jyrki ^a   Colpaert, Alfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; TOPOGRAPHY; TREELINE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; LAPLAND; WORLD;

BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; CONIFERALES; PICEA;

EID: 25144524255     PISSN: 00150010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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