Mountain Timberlines

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Holtmeier, Friedrich-Karl (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research ; 36
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Physical geography.; Ecology.; Landscape ecology.; Trees.; Climate change.; Life Sciences.; Landscape Ecology.; Climate Change.; Physical Geography.; Tree Biology.

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...

Table of Contents:

• History and Present State of Timberline Research
• Definitions, Terminology
• Physiognomic and Ecological Differentiation of Mountain Timberline
• Timberline Fluctuations
• Timberline Prospects and Research Needs.