Do limiting factors at Alaskan treelines shift with climatic regimes?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ohse, B ^a,b   Jansen, F ^a   Wilmking, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alaska; climate regime; dendroecology; global warming; site factors; treeline; white spruce

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857989545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015505     Document Type: Article

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