Climate change may already threaten Scots pine stands in the Swiss Alps

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-9

  Rebetez, Martine ^a   Dobbertin, Matthias ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MORTALITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND; WORLD;

EID: 7244242370     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-004-0058-3     Document Type: Article

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