Drought-triggered false ring formation in a mediterranean shrub

Botany

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 545-555

  Copenheaver, Carolyn A ^a   Gärtner, Holger ^b   Schäfer, Isabelle ^b,c   Vaccari, Francesco P ^d   Cherubini, Paolo ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOMETEOROLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arbutus unedo L.; Dendrochronology; Drought; False rings; Intra annual density fluctuations; Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROECOLOGY; DICOTYLEDON; DROUGHT; GROWTH RESPONSE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOISTURE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; SHRUB; STEM; TOLERANCE; TREE RING;

ELBA; ITALY; LIVORNO [TUSCANY]; TUSCAN ARCHIPELAGO; TUSCANY;

ARBUTUS UNEDO;

EID: 77953552580     PISSN: 19162804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/B10-029     Document Type: Article

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