Unexpected impacts of climate change on alpine vegetation

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 360-364

  Cannone, Nicoletta ^a   Sgorbati, Sergio ^b   Guglielmin, Mauro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; PERMAFROST; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SHRUB; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; VEGETATION COVER;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34548515922     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5[360:UIOCCO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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