Identifying the driving factors behind observed elevational range shifts on European mountains
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Department of Biology, University of Bergen, N-5020 Bergen, Norway, Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, N-9269 Tromsø, Norway, Landscape Ecology and Site Evaluation, University of Rostock, 18059 Rostock, Germany, Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, N-1432 Ås, Norway, Telemark University College, 3800 Bø, Norway, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland, Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PY, UK ABSTRACT
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