Establishing a missing link: warm summers and winter snow cover promote shrub expansion into alpine tundra in Scandinavia

New Phytologist

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 890-899

  Hallinger, Martin ^a   Manthey, Michael ^a   Wilmking, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Juniperus nana; Scandinavia; Serial sectioning; Shrub expansion; Shrub rings; Subarctic vegetation

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

AGE STRUCTURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ELEVATION; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; RANGE EXPANSION; SHRUB; SNOW COVER; SUBARCTIC REGION; TUNDRA;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; SCANDINAVIA; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

ALTITUDE; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; SCANDINAVIA; SEASONS; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SCANDINAVIAN AND NORDIC COUNTRIES;

SCANDINAVIA;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS NANA;

EID: 77953918920     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03223.x     Document Type: Article

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