Leif Kullman

Research qualifications: Docent

Contact

leif.kullman@umu.se

Works at

Affiliated as professor emeritus at Department of Ecology and Environmental Science

., Linnaeus väg 6, Umeå Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Publications Publications

Främmande trädarter sprids till svenska fjällbjörkskogar

Fauna & flora: en spegling av svensk natur, Stenungsund: Naturcentrum AB 2020, Vol. 115, (1) : 16-21

Kullman, Leif

One hundred years later and in a warmer climate: A case of ecotonal treeline change in the Swedish Scandes

Ecology & Conservation Science: Open Access, Irvine: Juniper Publishers 2020, Vol. 1, (3)

Kullman, Leif

Shrinking glaciers and ice patches disclose megafossil trees and provide a vision of the Late-glacial and Early post-glacial subalpine/alpine landscape in the Swedish Scandes: review and perspective

Journal of Natural Sciences, Madison: American Research Institute for Policy Development 2020, Vol. 8, (2) : 1-15

Kullman, Leif; Öberg, L

The recent history of subalpine krummholz pines (Pimus sylvestris) in the Swedish Scandes

International Journal of Research in Geography, ARC Publications 2020, Vol. 6, (1) : 16-28

Kullman, Leif; Öberg, Lisa

När eken växte vild i fjällen - En varmare och rikare tid text: [When the oak was a mountain tree]

Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift, Svenska Botaniska Föreningen 2015, Vol. 109, (5) : 260-266

Kullman, Leif

Higher-than-present medieval pine (Pinus sylvestris) treeline along the Swedish scandes

Landscape Online, International Association for Landscape Ecology 2015, Vol. 42, (1) : 1-14

Kullman, Leif

New Aspects of High-Mountain Palaeobiogeography: A Synthesis of Data from Forefields of Receding Glaciers and Ice Patches in the Tarna and Kebnekaise Mountains, Swedish Lapland

Arctic, Vol. 68, (2) : 141-152

Kullman, Leif; Oberg, Lisa

Treeline (Pinus sylvestris) landscape evolution in the Swedish Scandes - a 40-year demographic effort viewed in a broader temporal context

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, Taylor & Francis Group 2014, Vol. 68, (3) : 155-167

Kullman, Leif

Recent cooling and dynamic responses of alpine summit floras in the southern Swedish Scandes

Nordic Journal of Botany, Vol. 32, (3) : 369-376

Kullman, Leif

Ecological tree line history and palaeoclimate: review of megafossil evidence from the Swedish Scandes

Boreas, Vol. 42, (3) : 555-567

Kullman, Leif

The alpine treeline ecotone in the southernmost Swedish scandes: dynamism on different scales

Ecotones between forest and grassland, New York: Springer 2013 : 271-298

Kullman, Leif

Contrasting short-term performance of mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii) treeline along a latitudinal continentality-maritimity gradient in the southern Swedish Scandes

Fennia, Geographical Society of Finland 2012, Vol. 190, (1) : 19-40

Öberg, Lisa; Kullman, Leif

Recent glacier recession: a new source of postglacial treeline and climate history in the Swedish Scandes

Landscape Online, Vol. 26, (1) : 1-38

Öberg, Lisa; Kullman, Leif

Ancient Subalpine Clonal Spruces (Picea abies): Sources of Postglacial Vegetation History in the Swedish Scandes

Arctic, Vol. 64, (2) : 183-196

Oberg, Lisa; Kullman, Leif

A Richer, Greener and Smaller Alpine World: Review and Projection of Warming-Induced Plant Cover Change in the Swedish Scandes

Ambio, Springer Netherlands 2010, Vol. 39, (2) : 159-169

Kullman, Leif

Alpine flora dynamics: a critical review of responses to climate change in the Swedish Scandes since the early 1950s

Nordic Journal of Botany, Wiley-Blackwell 2010, Vol. 28, (4) : 398-408

Kullman, Leif

One century of treeline change and stability: experiences from the Swedish scandes

Landscape Online, International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE-D) 2010, Vol. 17, (1) : 1-31

Kullman, Leif

Post-Little Ice Age tree line rise and climate warming in the Swedish Scandes: a landscape ecological perspective

Journal of Ecology, Vol. 97, (3) : 415-429

Kullman , Leif; Öberg , L

High species turnover and decreasing plant species richness on mountain summits in Sweden: reindeer grazing overrides climate change? Comment

Kullman, Leif

Early postglacial appearance of tree species in northern Scandinavia: review and perspective

Quaternary Science Reviews, Oxford: Pergamon Press 2008, Vol. 27, (27-28) : 2467-2472

Kullman, Leif

Tree line population monitoring of Pinus sylvestris in the Swedish Scandes, 1973-2005: implications for tree line theory and climate change ecology

Journal of Ecology, Vol. 95 : 41-52

Kullman, Leif

Long-term geobotanical observations of climate change impacts in the Scandes of West-Central Sweden

Nordic Journal of Botany, Vol. 24 : 445-467

Kullman, Leif

Old and new trees on Mt Fulufjället in Dalarna, central Sweden [Gamla och nya träd på Fulufjället - Vegetationshistoria på hög nivå]

Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift, Vol. 99, (6) : 315-

Kullman, Leif

Early Holocene appearance of Mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. tortuosa) at unprecedented high elevations in the Swedish Scandes: megafossil evidence exposed by recent snow and ice recession

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol. 36 : 172-180

Kullman, L

Tree-limit landscape evolution at the southern fringe of the Swedish Scandes (Dalarna province) – Holocene and 20th century perspectives

Fennia, Vol. 182 : 141-162

Kullman, L

A face of global warming – “Ice birches” and a changing alpine plant cover

Geoöko, Vol. 25 : 181-202

Kullman, L

The changing face of the alpine world

Global Change Newsletter, Vol. 57 : 12-14

Kullman, L

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