Divergent growth responses and increasing temperature limitation of Qinghai spruce growth along an elevation gradient at the northeast Tibet Plateau

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1076-1082

  Zhang, Yongxiang ^a,b   Wilmking, Martin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendroecology; Growth response divergence; Tibetan Plateau; Treeline

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FACTORS; CLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; CURRENT LIMITATION; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; ELEVATION GRADIENT; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH PERFORMANCE; GROWTH RESPONSE; GROWTH TRENDS; HIGH LATITUDES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SPATIAL-TEMPORAL CHANGES; TEMPERATURE LIMITATION; TIBET PLATEAU; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TREE GROWTH; TREE RINGS; TREELINE;

TEMPERATURE;

CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; ELEVATION; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RESPONSE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREELINE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

PICEA; PICEA CRASSIFOLIA;

EID: 77955512396     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.06.034     Document Type: Article

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