Poor methodology for predicting large-scale tree die-off

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 38, 2009, Pages

  Leuzinger, Sebastian ^a   Bigler, Christof ^a   Wolf, Annett ^a   Körner, Christian ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

BREATHING RATE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; LETTER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PINE; PINUS EDULIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

CARBON; DROUGHTS; ECOLOGY; PINUS; PLANT LEAVES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 70349482680     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908053106     Document Type: Letter

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