Estimation of the growing season length in alpine areas: Effects of snow and temperatures

Alpine Environment: Geology, Ecology and Conservation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 85-134

  Odland, Arvid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

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