Dear User

This CD-ROM is a part of the book Wielgolaski, F.-E. (ed) (2005) Plant ecology, herbivory, and

human impact in Nordic mountain birch forests. Ecological Studies 180. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg

New York.

This book contains the results from the EU HIBECO project that was performed during the years 2000

to 2003. The project investigated various aspects of the mountain birch ecosystem in northern

Fennoscandia.

This readme file will lead you through the contents of the CD:

- Conditions of use and terms of warranty

available in RTF and PDF format (GENERAL/CONDITIO.RTF or CONDITIO.PDF).

- Contents of the book

available in RTF and PDF format (GENERAL/CONTENTS.RTF or CONTENTS.PDF).

- Addresses of the contributing authors

available in RTF and PDF format (GENERAL/AUTHORS.RTF or AUTHORS.PDF).

- Contents of the CD

available in RTF and PDF format (GENERAL/CD_CONT.RTF or CD_CONT.PDF).

File organization:

For each chapter with supplementary material there is a subdirectory/folder (e.g. /CHAP_02/).

Supplementary text is found in (taking Chap. 2 as an example) SUPPL_2.PDF, figures in FIGS_2.PDF

and tables in one file for each table (TAB_2_A.PDF etc.).

Chapters 20 and 21 present a model and modelling results in PowerPoint files, which are also

available as PDF files.

Installation programs for Acrobat Reader (for reading PDF files) and PowerPoint Viewer are included

in the directory PROGRAMS. In case of any problems you may also download installation programs from

the Internet:

PowerPoint Viewer at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en;

Acrobat Reader at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html.