effects of air pollution from a nickel–copper industrial complex on boreal forest vegetation in the joint russian– norwegian–Finnish border area

1) Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, Fanaflaten 4, N-5244 Fana, Norway (*e-mail: tor. [email protected]) 2) Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Tungasletta 2, N-7485 Trondheim, Norway 3) Finnish Forest Research Institute, Rovaniemi Research Unit, P.O. Box 16, FI-96301 Rovaniemi, Finland 4) Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Gaustadalléen 21, N-0349 Oslo, Norway 5) Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern, N-0318 Oslo, Norway 6) Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Polar Environmental Centre, N-9296 Tromsø, Norway 7) Institute of Global Climate and Ecology, 107258, 20-B Glebovskaya Str., Moscow, Russia 8) Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Industrial Ecology of the North (INEP), 184209, Fersmana st. 14a, Apatity, Murmansk region, Russia 9) All-Russian Institute for Nature Protection, 113628, Moscow, Russia, M-628, Znamenskoe-Sadki, Moscow, Russia 10) Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa Research Unit, P.O. Box 18, FI-01301 Vantaa, Finland 11) Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, P.O. Box 115, N-1431 Ås, Norway