Reduced growth of Alaskan white spruce in the twentieth century from temperature-induced drought stress

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6787, 2000, Pages 668-673

  Barber, Valerie A ^a,b   Juday, Glenn Patrick ^b   Finney, Bruce P ^a  

^a Alaska Stable Isotope Facility   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RATE;

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRESS; TEMPERATURE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; CLIMATE; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

UNITED STATES;

PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 0034621899     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35015049     Document Type: Article

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