The deciduous forest - boreal forest ecotone

Geography Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 701-717

  Goldblum, David ^a   Rigg, Lesley S ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOTONE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION;

EID: 77956620479     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00342.x     Document Type: Review

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