Treeline advance - driving processes and adverse factors

Landscape Online

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-33

  Holtmeier, Friedrich Karl ^a   Broll, Gabriele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VECHTA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Regeneration; Treeline dynamics; Treeline history; Treeline pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 40949154597     PISSN: 18651542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3097/LO.200701     Document Type: Article

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