Climatic treelines: Conventions, global patterns, causes

Erdkunde

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 316-324

  Körner, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Global perspective; Growing season; High elevation treeline; Thermal threshold

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; MOUNTAIN REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 38649140514     PISSN: 00140015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2007.04.02     Document Type: Article

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