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Book Reviews

Alpine Treelines: Functional Ecology of the Global High Elevation Tree Limits. By Christian Körner.

Basel: Springer, 2012. 220 pp. $89.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-3-034-80395-3

Pages 420-421 | Published online: 05 Jan 2018

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  • Arno, S. F. , and Hammerly, R. P. , 1984: Timberline: Mountain and Arctic Forest Frontiers. Seattle: The Mountaineers, 304 pp.
  • Butler, D. R. , Malanson, G. P. , Walsh, S. J. , and Fagre, D. B. , 2009: The Changing Alpine Treeline: the Example of Glacier National Park, MT, USA. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 199 pp.
  • Holtmeier, F.-K , 2003: Mountain Timberlines: Ecology, Patchiness, and Dynamics. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 369 pp.
  • Körner, C. , 1998: A re-assessment of high elevation treeline positions and their explanation. Oecologia , 115: 445–459.
  • Körner, C. , 1999: Alpine Plant Life. First edition. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 338 pp.
  • Körner, C. , 2005: The green cover of mountains in a changing environment. In Hubter, U. M. , Bugmann, H. K. , and Reasoner, M. E. (eds.), Global Change and Mountain Regions: an Overview of Current Knowledge. Dordrect: Advances in Global Change Research, 367–375.
  • Körner, C. , 2007: Climatic treelines: conventions, global patterns, causes. Erdkunde , 61: 316–324.
  • Tranquillini, W. , 1979: Physiological Ecology of the Alpine Timberline, Tree Existence at High Altitudes with Special Reference to the European Alps. New York: Springer-Verlag, 137 pp.

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