Evidence that longer needle retention of spruce and pine populations at high elevations and high latitudes is largely a phenotypic response

Tree Physiology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 643-647

  Reich, Peter B ^a   Oleksyn, Jacek ^a,b   Modrzynski, Jerzy ^c   Tjoelker, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF DENDROLOGY   (Poland)

^c POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

genotypic variation; needle longevity; phenotypic variation; Picea abies; Pinus sylvestris; temperature

Indexed keywords

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0029767947     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/16.7.643     Document Type: Article

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