Responses of wood anatomy and carbon isotope composition of Quercus pubescens saplings subjected to two consecutive years of summer drought

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Galle, Alexander ^a,c   Esper, Jan ^d   Feller, Urs ^a   Ribas Carbo, Miquel ^c   Fonti, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope composition; Drought stress; Earlywood and latewood; Tree ring; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY; CARBON ISOTOPE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RESPONSE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SAPLING; SUMMER; TREE RING;

QUERCUS PUBESCENS;

EID: 79958297477     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/forest/2010045     Document Type: Article

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