Mountain Timberlines

Mountain Timberlines is published as part of the broad area of research on the changing global climate and its impact on the environment. The upper timberline is the most conspicuous vegetation limit in high-mountain areas of all continents and islands, except for the Antarctic. The dynamics of timb...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Holtmeier, Friedrich-Karl. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
Series:Advances in Global Change Research ; 36
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505 0 # |a From the contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 History and present state of timberline research -- 3 Definitions, terminology -- 4 Physiognomic and ecological differentiation of mountain timberline -- 5 Timberline fluctuations -- 6 Timberline prospects and research needs -- References -- Index. 
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