Editing Tree line (section)

==Tree species near tree line==
[[File:Vihren Peak.jpg|thumb|Coniferous species tree line below [[Vihren|Vihren Peak]], [[Pirin Mountains]], [[Bulgaria]]]]
[[File:Larix gmelinii0.jpg|thumb|[[Larix gmelinii|Dahurian larch]] growing close to the Arctic tree line in the [[Kolyma]] region, Arctic northeast [[Siberia]]]]
[[File:Valle del Frances.jpg|thumb|View of a [[Magellanic subpolar forests|Magellanic]] [[Nothofagus pumilio|lenga]] forest close to the tree line in [[Torres del Paine National Park]], [[Chile]]]]
Some typical Arctic and alpine tree line tree species (note the predominance of [[Pinophyta|conifers]]):

===Australia===
* [[Eucalyptus pauciflora|Snow gum]] (''Eucalyptus pauciflora'')

===Eurasia===
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* [[Larix gmelinii|Dahurian larch]] (''Larix gmelinii'')
* [[Pinus peuce|Macedonian pine]] (''Pinus peuce'')
* [[Pinus cembra|Swiss pine]] (''Pinus cembra'')
* [[Pinus mugo|Mountain pine]] (''Pinus mugo'')
* [[Betula pubescens|Arctic white birch]] (''Betula pubescens'' subsp. ''tortuosa'')
* [[Sorbus aucuparia|Rowan]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chalupa |first=V. |title=High-Tech and Micropropagation II |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |year=1992 |isbn=978-3-642-76424-0 |editor-last=Bajaj |editor-first=Y.P.S. |series=Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry |volume=18 |pages=211–226 |chapter=Micropropagation of European Mountain Ash (Sorbus aucuparia L.) and Wild Service Tree [Sorbus torminalis (L.) Cr.] |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-76422-6_11}}</ref> (''Sorbus aucuparia'')
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===North America===
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* [[Abies lasiocarpa|Subalpine fir]] (''Abies lasiocarpa'')<ref name=rockymtns/>{{rp|106}}
* [[Larix lyallii|Subalpine larch]] (''Larix lyallii'')<ref name="cancyc">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Treeline |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008111 |access-date=2011-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203223010/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008111 |archive-date=2010-12-03}}</ref>
* [[Tsuga mertensiana|Mountain hemlock]] (''Tsuga mertensiana'')
* [[Cupressus nootkatensis|Alaska yellow cedar]] (''Chaemaecyparis nootkatensis'')
* [[Picea engelmannii|Engelmann spruce]] (''Picea engelmannii'')<ref name=rockymtns/>{{rp|106}}
* [[Pinus albicaulis|Whitebark pine]] (''Pinus albicaulis'')<ref name=cancyc/>
* [[Pinus longaeva|Great Basin bristlecone pine]] (''Pinus longaeva'')
* [[Pinus aristata|Rocky Mountains bristlecone pine]] (''Pinus aristata'')
* [[Pinus balfouriana|Foxtail pine]] (''Pinus balfouriana'')
* [[Pinus flexilis|Limber pine]] (''Pinus flexilis'')
* [[Pinus culminicola|Potosi pinyon]] (''Pinus culminicola'')
* [[Picea mariana|Black spruce]] (''Picea mariana'')<ref name=taiga/>{{rp|53}}
* [[Picea glauca|White spruce]] (''Picea glauca'')
* [[Larix laricina|Tamarack]] (''Larix laricina'')
* [[Pinus hartwegii|Hartweg's pine]] (''Pinus hartwegii'')
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===South America===
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* [[Nothofagus antarctica|Antarctic beech]] (''Nothofagus antarctica'')
* [[Nothofagus pumilio|Lenga beech]] (''Nothofagus pumilio'')<ref name="Fajardo">{{Cite journal |last1=Fajardo |first1=A |last2=Piper |first2=FI |last3=Cavieres |first3=LA |year=2011 |title=Distinguishing local from global climate influences in the variation of carbon status with altitude in a tree line species |journal=Global Ecology and Biogeography |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=307–318 |doi=10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00598.x |bibcode=2011GloEB..20..307F |hdl-access=free |hdl=10533/134794|url=http://americanae.aecid.es/americanae/es/registros/registro.do?tipoRegistro=MTD&idBib=3304268 }}</ref>
* [[Alnus acuminata|Alder]] (''Alnus acuminata'')
* [[Podocarpus parlatorei|Pino del cerro]] (''Podocarpus parlatorei'')
* [[Polylepis]] (''Polylepis tarapacana'')
* [[Eucalyptus]] (not native to South America but grown in large amounts in the high Andes).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dickinson |first=Joshua C. |date=1969 |title=The Eucalypt in the Sierra of Southern Peru |journal=Annals of the Association of American Geographers |volume=59 |issue=2 |pages=294–307 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8306.1969.tb00672.x |issn=0004-5608 |jstor=2561632}}</ref>
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