Growth-climate responses of high-elevation conifers in the central Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 306-313

  Fan, Ze Xin ^a,b   Bräuning, Achim ^b   Cao, Kun Fang ^a   Zhu, Shi Dan ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendroclimatology; Hengduan Mountains; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATE WARMING; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ELEVATION GRADIENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RESPONSE; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS; INTERANNUAL; LOW SENSITIVITY; LOW TEMPERATURES; RADIAL GROWTH; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TREE SPECIES; TREE-RING WIDTH; TREE-RINGS; WINTER SEASONS;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ELEVATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RESPONSE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CLIMATES; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MOUNTAINS; RINGS; TREES;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HENGDUAN MOUNTAINS;

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA;

EID: 67349083877     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.04.017     Document Type: Article

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