Long-term changes in Dwarf Pine (Pinus mugo) cover in the high tatra mountains, Slovakia

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-62

  Solár, Jaroslav ^a   Janiga, Marián ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILINA   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Abiotic habitat conditions; Carpathians; climate change; land use change; Pinus mugo; Poland; Slovakia

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURVATURE; DISPERSAL; FLOW; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TREE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CARPATHIANS; SLOVAKIA; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 84874872373     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-12-00079.1     Document Type: Article

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