Altitudinal increase of mobile carbon pools in Pinus cembra suggests sink limitation of growth at the Swiss treeline

Oikos

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 361-374

  Hoch, Günter ^a   Popp, Marianne ^a   Körner, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CARBON; GROWTH; LOW TEMPERATURE; TREELINE;

SWITZERLAND;

PINUS CEMBRA;

EID: 0036745305     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.980301.x     Document Type: Article

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