Recent cooling and dynamic responses of alpine summit floras in the southern Swedish Scandes

Nordic Journal of Botany

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 369-376

  Kullman, Leif ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FLORISTICS; PHENOLOGY; RETROGRESSION; SNOW COVER; SPECIES RICHNESS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

SCANDES MOUNTAINS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84902553533     PISSN: 0107055X     EISSN: 17561051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00229.x     Document Type: Article

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