Environmental controls on needle gas exchange and growth of white spruce (Picea glauca) on a riverside terrace near the arctic treeline

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 279-288

  Sullivan, Patrick F ^a   Sveinbjörnsson, Bjartmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CANOPY EXCHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEFOLIATION; DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FROST; GAS EXCHANGE; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MOTH; RIVER TERRACE; SOIL WATER; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREELINE; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER CONTENT;

ALASKA; NOATAK NATIONAL PRESERVE; UNITED STATES;

LEPIDOPTERA; PICEA GLAUCA; ZEIRAPHERA;

EID: 79956018482     PISSN: 15230430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-43.2.279     Document Type: Article

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