Treeline advances along the Urals mountain range - driven by improved winter conditions?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3530-3543

  Hagedorn, Frank ^a   Shiyatov, Stepan G ^b   Mazepa, Valeriy S ^b   Devi, Nadezhda M ^b   Grigor'ev, Andrey A ^b   Bartysh, Alexandr A ^c   Fomin, Valeriy V ^c   Kapralov, Denis S ^c   Terent'ev, Maxim ^b   Bugman, Harald ^d   Rigling, Andreas ^a   Moiseev, Pavel A ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c URAL STATE FOREST ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Larix sibirica; Picea obovata; Betula pubescens subsp. tortuosa; Climate change; Forest tundra ecotone; Microclimate; Mountain ecosystem; Snow; Tree establishment

Indexed keywords

BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; LARIX SIBIRICA; PICEA OBOVATA;

SNOW;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT DISPERSAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TREE; TUNDRA;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTS; PLANT DISPERSAL; RUSSIA; SEASONS; SNOW; TEMPERATURE; TREES; TUNDRA;

EID: 84907897221     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12613     Document Type: Article

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