Why and how to study a snowcover

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 118-128

  Pruitt Jr , William O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal ecology; Snow; Snow ecology; Snow instruments; Snow terminology; Snowcover; Taiga; Tundra; Winter ecology

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; DENSITY; HARDNESS; SNOW COVER; TERMINOLOGY; TUNDRA;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33746121920     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v119i1.90     Document Type: Review

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