The Impacts of Climate Variability on Forests /

This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop on the impacts of climatic variability held in Wengen, Switzerland, September 1997. For the first time, an assessment is made of the interactions between physical and biological elements of the Ea...

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Main Author: Beniston, Martin
Other Authors: Innes, John L
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998
Series:Lecture notes in earth sciences ; 74
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Table of Contents:
  • The impact of climatic extremes on forests: an introduction.
  • Meteorological extremes and their impacts on forests in the Czech Republic
  • Changes in temperature variability in relation to shifts in mean temperatures in the Swiss Alpine region this century
  • Precipitation and snow cover variability in the French Alps
  • Documenting the effects of recent climate change at treeline in the Canadian Rockies
  • Managing Swiss forests: when climate intervenes
  • Worldwide positions of alpine treelines and their causes
  • Impacts of climatic variability and extreme on forests: synthesis ..