What is hot in tree rings? The wood density of surviving Douglas-firs to the 2003 drought and heat wave

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 837-843

  Martinez Meier, Alejandro ^a,b   Sanchez, Leopoldo ^b   Pastorino, Mario ^a,c   Gallo, Leonardo ^a   Rozenberg, Philippe ^b  

^a Inst Nac de Tecnol Agropecuaria   (Argentina)

^b National Institute for Agricultural Research   (France)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Heat wave; Microdensity profile; Phenotypic plasticity; Pseudotsuga menziesii

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GLOBAL WARMING; HEALTH; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SPECIAL EFFECTS; WAVES; WOOD;

CHANGE PROCESSES; CLIMATE EVENTS; DIAMETER GROWTH; DOUGLAS FIRS; DOUGLAS-FIRS; ELSEVIER (CO); ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS; GROWTH RINGS; HEAT WAVES; HYDRAULIC BALANCE; IN ORDER; INTENSE (CO); LATEWOOD (LW); LATEWOOD DENSITY; RING DENSITY; STEM DENSITY; TREE LEVEL; TREE RINGS; TREE SPECIES; WOOD DENSITY;

DROUGHT;

ACCLIMATION; ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENSITY; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; DROUGHT STRESS; GLOBAL WARMING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SURVIVAL; TREE RING; WOOD QUALITY;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATES; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; HEALTH; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; WAVES; WOOD; WOOD DENSITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 47049130310     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.05.041     Document Type: Article

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