Climate and land-use change as driving forces in lowland semi-natural vegetation dynamics

Erdkunde

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 335-353

  Lundberg, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Forest expansion; GIS; Historical geography; Land use change

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIELD SURVEY; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GIS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDHOLDING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; RANGE EXPANSION; SOIL PROFILE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORWAY;

EID: 84856704669     PISSN: 00140015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2011.04.02     Document Type: Article

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