Swiss stone pine - portrait of a mountain forest tree

Abstract

Fig. 1. Steadfast Swiss stone pines in a dynamic habitat: patchy, mixed-age stand above the Aletsch Glacier (Canton Valais)."Here and there such a warrior still stands faithfully at his post, with shattered shaft, and stretches his arm out defiantly from the rocky scree like a battle axe, or cowers like an old man bent down on his crutches by the storm of life."