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

• Main Authors: Tinner, Willy, Theurillat, Jean-Paul
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder 2003
• Subjects: 580 Plants (Botany); Egga; Antarctic and Alpine Research; Arctic; Arctic and Alpine Research; Salix herbacea
• Online Access: https://boris.unibe.ch/83991/1/AAAR_35_158.pdf; https://boris.unibe.ch/83991/; http://www.jstor.org/stable/1552367

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...