Exploring for senescence signals in native scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in the Scottish Highlands

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 321-330

  Fish, T ^a   Wilson, R ^b   Edwards, C ^c   Mills, C ^b   Crone, A ^d   Kirchhefer, A J ^e   Linderholm, H W ^f   Loader, N J ^g   Woodley, E ^g  

^a Pearce Consulting Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d AOC ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^g SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Ring width; Scotland; Scots pine; Senescence

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; DEAD STANDING TREES; DEAD TREES; MATURE TREES; PINE TREES; PINE WOODLANDS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; RING-WIDTH; SCOTLAND; SCOTS PINE; STAND AGE; TEMPORAL INSTABILITY; TREE GROWTH;

FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOFTWOODS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; NATIVE SPECIES; SENESCENCE; SIGNAL; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WOODLAND;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; MORTALITY; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLANTS; RINGS; SOFTWOODS;

GLEN AFFRIC; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77954817462     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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