Response of climate-growth relationships and water use efficiency to thinning in a Pinus nigra afforestation

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 967-975

  Martín Benito, Darío ^a   Del Río, Miren ^a   Heinrich, Ingo ^b   Helle, Gerhard ^b   Cañellas, Isabel ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black pine; Carbon and oxygen isotopes; Competition; Forest management; Stem growth; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

AIR HUMIDITY; BASAL AREA INCREMENT; CENTRAL SPAIN; COMBINED ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RESPONSE; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC CAPACITY; PINUS NIGRA; STABLE ISOTOPES; STAND DENSITIES; STEM GROWTH; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TREE DENSITY; TREE GROWTH; TREE RINGS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

AGRICULTURE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CARBON BLACK; CLIMATE CONTROL; COMPETITION; DROUGHT; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; REFORESTATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AFFORESTATION; BASAL AREA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONIFEROUS TREE; DENSITY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; GROWTH RATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; THINNING; TREE RING; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CARBON BLACK; COMPETITION; DROUGHT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HUMIDITY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; PINUS NIGRA; REFORESTATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

SPAIN;

PINUS NIGRA;

EID: 74449085561     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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