Coincidence of the alpine-nival ecotone with the summer snowline

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gottfried, M ^a   Hantel, M ^a   Maurer, C ^a   Toechterle, R ^a   Pauli, H ^b   Grabherr, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

alpine nival ecotone; altitudinal species ranges; climate change; high mountain vegetation; nivality index; probabilistic model; snow duration; state function; temperature sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952970583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/1/014013     Document Type: Article

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