Trees at their Upper Limit Treelife Limitation at the Alpine Timberline - Wieser, Gerhard; Tausz, Michael; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
Current Concepts for Treelife Limitation at the Upper Timberline -- Climate at the Upper Timberline -- Soils - Heterogeneous at a Microscale -- Mycorrhiza in the Alpine Timberline Ecotone: Nutritional Implications -- Vegetation at the Upper Timberline -- Limitation by an Insufficient Carbon Assimilation and Allocation -- Limitation by Growth Processes -- Limits in Water Relations -- Phytopathogens at the Alpine Timberline -- Frost Resistance at the Upper Timberline -- Photo-Oxidative Stress at the Timberline -- Global Change at the Upper Timberline -- Synopsis.
Keywords: Forestry; Trees; Plant physiology; Plant ecology; Forestry; Tree Biology; Plant Physiology; Plant Ecology