Little change in the fir tree-line position on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau after 200years of warming

New Phytologist

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 760-769

  Liang, Eryuan ^a   Wang, Yafeng ^a,c   Eckstein, Dieter ^b   Luo, Tianxiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Abies georgei var. smithii; Age structure; Climate change; Dendroecology; Recruitment; Southeastern Tibetan Plateau; Tree line dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROECOLOGY; ECOTONE; PALEOBOTANY; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TREELINE;

ABIES; ARTICLE; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TREE;

ABIES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TIBET; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ABIES; ABIES GEORGEI;

EID: 79954588013     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03623.x     Document Type: Article

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