Climatic factors affecting radial growth of Betula ermanii and Betula platypylla in Kamchatka

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-285

  Doležal, Jiri ^a,b   Ishii, Hiroaki ^c,d   Kyncl, Tomáš ^a,e   Takahashi, Koichi ^f   Vetrova, Valentina P ^g   Homma, Kosuke ^h   Sumida, Akihiro ^c   Hara, Toshihiko ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Laboratory of Dendrochronology   (Czech Republic)

^f SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^h NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETULA ERMANII; CLIMATIC FACTORS; DOMINANT SPECIES; GEOGRAPHIC RANGES; KAMCHATKA; MARITIME SITES; METEOROLOGICAL RECORDS; RADIAL GROWTH; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; RING WIDTH; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; WATER STRESS; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECIDUOUS TREE; DESICCATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BETULA; BETULA ERMANII; BETULA PLATYPHYLLA; LARIX; PICEA; PICEA AJANENSIS;

EID: 77049100297     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-179     Document Type: Article

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