Contrasting tree-ring growth to climate responses of Abies alba toward the southern limit of its distribution area

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1515-1525

  Carrer, Marco ^a   Nola, Paola ^b   Motta, Renzo ^c   Urbinati, Carlo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ECOTYPE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MONTANE FOREST; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TREE RING;

ALPS; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; ABIES FRASERI;

EID: 77955987476     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18293.x     Document Type: Article

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