Climate change impacts in alpine environments

Geography Compass

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1133-1153

  Grabherr, Georg ^a   Gottfried, Michael ^a   Pauli, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GRASSLAND; HEATHLAND; TUNDRA; VEGETATION;

EID: 77956624133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00356.x     Document Type: Review

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