A climate-based model to predict potential treeline position around the globe

Alpine Botany

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Paulsen, Jens ^a   Körner, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine; Altitude; Arctic; Bioclimatology; Elevation; Forest; Mountains; Season; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE MODELING; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; PREDICTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOWPACK; TERRAIN; TREELINE; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84894283849     PISSN: 16642201     EISSN: 1664221X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00035-014-0124-0     Document Type: Article

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