Drought alters timing, quantity, and quality of wood formation in Scots pine

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2763-2771

  Eilmann, Britta ^a   Zweifel, Roman ^a   Buchmann, Nina ^b   Graf Pannatier, Elisabeth ^a   Rigling, Andreas ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; forest decline; intra annual tree growth; irrigation experiment; pinning; wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMIDITY; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); SCOTS PINE; SOIL; TIME; TREE; WOOD;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; CLIMATE; DROUGHTS; HUMIDITY; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WATER; WOOD;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 79957477167     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq443     Document Type: Article

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