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Bioclimatic Temperatures in the High Alps

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Characteristic of a high mountain climate are lower temperatures, frequency and intensity of wind and a more irregular distribution of precipitation. High mountain climate is defined by small-scale, terrain-dependent and short-term changeability.

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Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Regional Center for Tirol and Vorarlberg (Dr. Karl Gabl), and to the Institute of Ecology, University Innsbruck (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Tappeiner), for providing data. Thanks, to “pdl, Dr. Eugen Preuss” Innsbruck, for image processing.

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Larcher, W. (2012). Bioclimatic Temperatures in the High Alps. In: Lütz, C. (eds) Plants in Alpine Regions. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0136-0_3

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