The alpine treeline ecotone in the southernmost Swedish scandes: Dynamism on different scales

Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 271-298

  Kullman, Leif ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3797-0_12     Document Type: Chapter

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