Assessing the effects of climate change on the phenology of European temperate trees

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 969-980

  Vitasse, Yann ^a   François, Christophe ^b,c   Delpierre, Nicolas ^b   Dufrêne, Eric ^b,c   Kremer, Antoine ^d   Chuine, Isabelle ^c   Delzon, Sylvain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

Author keywords

Canopy duration; Climate change; Elevational gradient; Forest; Phenological models

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CANOPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DORMANCY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOPERIOD; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TREE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; QUERCUS PETRAEA;

EID: 79955600627     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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