Release on 2009-03-15 | by Friedrich-Karl Holtmeier
The Laps cleared the uppermost forest belt (mainly firewood, fences) and reduced the timberline to the steep trough walls ... many ore smelters were shut down because all forests had been cleared on the surrounding mountain slopes.
Author: Friedrich-Karl Holtmeier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402097058
Category: Science
Page: 438
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For more than 40 years I have been engaged in timberline research. Thus, one could suppose that writing this book should not have been too difficult. It was harder, however, than expected, and in the end I felt that more questions had arisen than could be answered within its pages. Perhaps it would have been easier to write the book 30 years ago and then leave the subject to mature. Lastly it was the late Prof. Heinz Ellenberg who had convinced me to portray a much needed and complete picture of what we know of the timberline with special respect to its great physiognomic, structural and ecological variety. The first version of this book was p- lished in the German language (Holtmeier, 2000). Nevertheless, I was very delighted when Prof. Martin Beniston encouraged me to prepare an English edition for the series ‘Advances in Global Change Research’, which guaranteed a wider circulation. Timberline is a worldwide and very heterogeneous phenomenon, which can only be presented by way of examples. My own field experience is necessarily limited to certain timberline areas, such as the Alps, northern Scandinavia, northern Finland and many high mountain ranges in the western United States and Canada. However, my own observations and the results of my and my previous collaborators research were essential for developing the concept of the book and became integrated into the picture of timberline that is presented in the following chapters.
Mountain and Arctic Forest Frontiers Stephen F. Arno, Ramona P. Hammerly ... Lower timberlines form at the foot of the mountains south from southern Alberta , and they generally have the Rocky Mountain form of ponderosa pine ( Pinus ...
Author: Stephen F. Arno
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: UOM:39015010063728
Category: Nature
Page: 304
View: 410
Originally published in 1984, this is a classic in Western natural history now made available again to climbers, hikers, and other enthusiasts.
Table 1 : Average Measured Elevation of Alpine Timberline on Three Mountains Elevation of Timberline ( m ) Mountain State Lat . ( on ) . Contrary to its name , timberline is frequently found to be irregular in elevation .
Daubenmire , R. , 1954 : Alpine timberlines in the Americas and their interpretation . Butler University Botanical Studies ... Dunwiddie , P. W. , 1977 : Recent tree invasion of subalpine meadows in the Wind River Mountains , Wyoming .
The title of the book leads one to believe that approximately equal treatment will be given to mountain and arctic timberlines , with both upper and lower montane timberlines discussed . Arno states on p .
The moun- which communicate a sense of peacefultains of Maine are being despoiled one by ness to the mountain men and ... high point of the Mansfield sports an extensive area above range at the summit of Mt. Washington . timberline .
Many other factors , however , affect how high on mountain slopes trees are found . Timberline tends to be higher , for example , on sunny southerly slopes . Even on the same mountain , timberline will be lower on a slope exposed to ...
Author: Edward R. Ricciuti
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39076006857648
Category: Mountain animals
Page: 232
View: 384
Discusses the characteristics, behavior, and interrelationships of the plants and animals that live in the world's mountain ranges.
A synthesis Table 1 Synopsis of major features of New Zealand timberlines ... Received 25 May 1984 ; accepted 21 September 1984 Keywords timberline ; mountain beech ; coldtolerance ; subalpine shrubs ; Pinus contorta INTRODUCTION The ...
FRANK M. BRISTOL , D.D. mountains of the Bible , where they had been felt and beauty , what grandeur spread out toward the ... Olivet of the ascension ; the great and high mountain Timberline about his life , asked him about his wages ...
CLIMATIC STRESS INFLUENCING THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF TREES AT THE POLAR AND MOUNTAIN TIMBERLINE F.-K. Holtmeier Institute ... The upper and polar timberlines are the most conspicuous features within this change in plant cover in the vertical ...
Mountain timberlines : ecology , patchiness , and dynamics . 2nd ed . Springer , 2009. 437p bibl index afp ISBN 9781402097041 , $ 179.00 This book is the result of a lifetime's dedication to research on mountain and polar timberlines ...
In fact a dozen or so species of willow , alder , aspen and birch can account for the northern timberline around the ... The typical stunted , gnarled and dwarf stature of high mountain timberlines ( krummholz ) displays the limiting ...
However , the explanation of the mountain timberline vegetation in the cannot be climatic alone , though some of ... the meadows there are dwarf - shrub heaths at the timberlines belong to local rather than zonal vegetation . both in ...
Proceeding up a mountain , temperature decreases , rainfall increases , and wind velocity increases . ... Timberlines in the northern Rocky Mountains are determined by wind , according to Griggs ( 1938 ) . He observed that protected ...
At Flora Saddle silver beech is the timberline species and mountain beech does not appear for 500 to 600 ft below timberline . In the Cobb valley both species reach timberline and at Parapara Peak and in the Lead Hills mountain beech is ...
The cooling of the climate at the end of the 20th to the beginning of the 21st centuries , predicted by climatologists and heliogeographers , should result in a lowering of the timberline in many mountain regions of the boreal zone .
Release on 1968 | by International Association for Quaternary Research
... month approximates the mountain timberlines in New Zealand and Australia . This broad correlation exists for most natural timberlines throughout the world - even in the tropics , where seasonal differ- ences are greatly reduced .
Author: International Association for Quaternary Research
LaMarche's detailed analysis of this situation was directed toward the dead bristlecone pines above timberline on Sheep and Campito mountains in the southern White Mountains . On Sheep Mountain , LaMarche found that dead trees extend as ...
Author: Donald K. Grayson
Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Press
ISBN: UOM:39015029954909
Category: Geology
Page: 384
View: 357
Traces the history of the Great Basin from twenty-five thousand years ago to the present, and looks at the area's natural history, archaelogy, and geology