Mediterranean climate effects. II. Conifer growth phenology across a Sierra Nevada ecotone

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 919-932

  Royce, E B ^a,b   Barbour, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kennedy Meadows Box 2C4 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Abies; Conifer; Ecotone; Growth phenology; Mediterranean climate; Pinus; Sierra Nevada; Snowpack

Indexed keywords

EID: 3743069743     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2657045     Document Type: Article

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