Climate relationships of growth and establishment across the altitudinal range of Fagus sylvatica in the Montseny Mountains, northeast Spain

Ecoscience

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 507-518

  Jump, Alistair S ^a,b   Hunt, Jenny M ^a   Peñuelas, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Geographic range; Mediterranean; Tree growth; Treeline

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROECOLOGY; GROWTH; GROWTH RESPONSE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; TREE; TREE RING; TREELINE;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MONTSENY MOUNTAINS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 38649128201     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/1195-6860(2007)14[507:CROGAE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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