Baumgrenze

Started talking about the tree line in the Alps and looked up this page and this page.

Factors:
Depends on aspect of slope, rain, and distance to the poles (or how close it is to the equator), and in some cases vegetation…

Swiss Alps: 2100 m
Mount Kilmanjaro, Tanzania: 3000 m
Andes, South America: 3900 to 5200 m

This entry was written by nchenga, posted on 3/24/2008 at 9:14 am, filed under General and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

One Comment

  1. persillie
    Posted 3/24/2008 at 1:15 pm | Permalink

    I remember that back in school we learned that the tree line in the swiss alps is at 1800m. Klimaerwärmung?

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