Using simple causal modeling to understand how water and temperature affect daily stem radial variation in trees

Tree Physiology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1125-1136

  Deslauriers, Annie ^a   Anfodillo, Tommaso ^a   Rossi, Sergio ^a   Carraro, Vinicio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conifers; Growth climate relationships; Radial growth; Stem contraction; Tree water relations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROWTH RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; SAP FLOW; SHRINKAGE; STEM; SWELLING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE;

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS CEMBRA;

EID: 34548337288     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/27.8.1125     Document Type: Article

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