Contrasting short-term performance of mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii) treeline along a latitudinal continentality-maritimity gradient in the southern Swedish Scandes

Fennia

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-40

  Öberg, Lisa ^a   Kullman, Leif ^b  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii; Climate warming; Regeneration; Revisitation study; Swedish Scandes; Treeline

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH FORM; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MELTWATER; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; PHENOLOGY; RANGE EXPANSION; REGENERATION; RELICT COMMUNITY; SNOW COVER; SOIL MOISTURE; TREELINE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VIGOR;

SCANDES MOUNTAINS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84867440878     PISSN: 00150010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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