Contemporary and historic population structure of Abies spectabilis at treeline in Barun valley, eastern Nepal Himalaya

Journal of Mountain Science

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 558-570

  Chhetri, Parveen Kumar ^a   Cairns, David M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Recruitment pattern; Treeline advance; Treeline ecotone

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOTONE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE; TREELINE;

NEPAL;

EID: 84930213042     PISSN: 16726316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11629-015-3454-5     Document Type: Article

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