Relating tree growth to rainfall in Bolivian rain forests: A test for six species using tree ring analysis

Oecologia

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Brienen, Roel J W ^a,b   Zuidema, Pieter A ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Programa Manejo de Bosques de la Amazonia Boliviana PROMAB   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Climate growth relation; Radiocarbon dating; Tropical dendrochronology; Tropical rain forest; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GROWTH; TREE; TREE RING; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BOLIVIA; RAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27644514668     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0160-y     Document Type: Article

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