Geodiversity of high-latitude landscapes in northern Finland

Geomorphology

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 109-116

  Hjort, Jan ^a   Luoto, Miska ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Geodiversity; Geomorphological mapping; Grid approach; Landscape scale; Subarctic

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBARCTIC REGION; TOPOGRAPHY;

FINLAND;

EID: 73549092485     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.09.039     Document Type: Article

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