Uppermost Limit, Extent, and Fluctuations of the Timberline and Treeline Ecocline in the Swiss Central Alps during the past 11,500 Years

• Main Authors: Theurillat, Jean-Paul, Tinner, Willy
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder 2003
• Subjects: 580 Plants Botany; Egga; Salix herbacea
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7892/boris.83991; http://boris.unibe.ch/83991/

Pollen and macrofossils were analyzed at two sites above today's treeline (or tree limit) in the Swiss Central Alps (Gouillé Loéré, 2503 m a.s.l., and Lengi Egga, 2557 m a.s.l.) to test two contrasting hypotheses about the natural formation of timberline (the upper limit of closed forest) in th...