Recent climate warming forces contrasting growth responses of white spruce at treeline in Alaska through temperature thresholds

Global Change Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1724-1736

  Wilmking, Martin ^a   Juday, Glenn P ^a   Barber, Valerie A ^a   Zald, Harold S J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Carbon uptake; Climate change; Cluster analysis; Dendrochronology; Threshold effects; Treeline; White spruce

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RESPONSE; TREELINE;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; BROOKS RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 7244250190     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00826.x     Document Type: Article

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