Coastal landscape dynamics in ne Sørkapp land (SE spitsbergen), 1900-2005

Ambio

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 201-208

  Ziaja, Wieslaw ^a   Maciejowski, Wojciech ^a   Ostafin, Krzysztof ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; COASTAL LANDFORM; COLONIZATION; GPS; LANDSCAPE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC CURRENT; REMOTE SENSING; TIDEWATER GLACIER; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN; ICE COVER; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORWAY; SEA; TELECOMMUNICATION;

DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMANS; ICE COVER; NORWAY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 68749114245     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-38.4.201     Document Type: Article

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31. A. Kacprzak is acknowledged for assistance in proofreading the text. Field investigations were financed by the Polish national project PBZ-KBN-108/P04/2004, Structure, Evolution and Dynamics of Lithosphere, Cryosphere and Biosphere in the European Arctic and Antarctic, managed by Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
32. First submitted 17 May 2008. Accepted for publication 3 November 2008.