Feedback processes between climate, surface and vegetation at the northern climatological tree-line (Finnish Lapland)

Boreal Environment Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 299-314

  Vajda, Andrea ^a   Venäläinen, Ari ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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EID: 25444499159     PISSN: 12396095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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