Geographic variation in growth response of Douglas-fir to interannual climate variability and projected climate change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3374-3385

  Chen, Pei Yu ^a   Welsh, Cedar ^a   Hamann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change impacts; Dendroclimatology; Dendroecology; Plant climate relationships

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 78349292976     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02166.x     Document Type: Article

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