Tree endurance on the Tibetan Plateau marks the world's highest known tree line of the Last Glacial Maximum

New Phytologist

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 332-342

  Opgenoorth, Lars ^a   Vendramin, Giovanni G ^b   Mao, Kangshan ^c   Miehe, Georg ^a   Miehe, Sabine ^a   Liepelt, Sascha ^a   Liu, Jianquan ^c   Ziegenhagen, Birgit ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Glacial refugia; High mountain areas; Juniperus tibetica complex; Orographic leading edge; Orographic rear edge; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CHLOROPLAST; CONIFEROUS TREE; GENE FLOW; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; OROGRAPHY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RANGE SIZE; REFUGIUM; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TREELINE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHLOROPLAST; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; ICE COVER; JUNIPERUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; ICE COVER; JUNIPERUS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TIBET; TREES;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS TIBETICA;

EID: 71249110645     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03007.x     Document Type: Article

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