Carbon isotope discrimination indicates improving water-use efficiency of trees in northern Eurasia over the last 100 years

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2109-2120

  Saurer, Matthias ^a   Siegwolf, Rolf T W ^a   Schweingruber, Fritz H ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope discrimination; Climate change; Larix; Picea; Pinus; Tree rings; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROECOLOGY; GAS EXCHANGE; TRANSPIRATION; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

CONIFEROPHYTA; LARIX; PICEA;

EID: 10944240825     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00869.x     Document Type: Article

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