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Challenges to Adaptation in Northernmost Europe as a Result of Global Climate Change

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This project was funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

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  1. Landscape Ecology Group, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden

    Christer Nilsson & Roland Jansson

  2. Department of Social and Economic Geography, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden

    E. Carina H. Keskitalo

  3. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Tatiana Vlassova

  4. The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi, 96301, Rovaniemi, Finland

    Marja-Liisa Sutinen

  5. Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden

    Jon Moen

  6. Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, 99775, USA

    F. Stuart Chapin III

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Nilsson, C., Jansson, R., Keskitalo, E.C.H. et al. Challenges to Adaptation in Northernmost Europe as a Result of Global Climate Change. AMBIO 39, 81–84 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-009-0010-y

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