On the use of elevation, altitude, and height in the ecological and climatological literature

Oecologia

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 335-337

  McVicar, Tim R ^a   Körner, Christian ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altitude; Elevation; Height; Lapse rate

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMMUNICATION; EARTH; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ELEVATION; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; HEIGHT; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE REVIEW;

EID: 84872613282     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2416-7     Document Type: Article

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