Climate controls act at different scales on the seasonal pattern of Quercus ilex L. stem radial increments in NE Spain

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 637-646

  Gutiérrez, Emilia ^a   Campelo, Filipe ^a,b   Camarero, J Julio ^c   Ribas, Montserrat ^a   Muntán, Elena ^a   Nabais, Cristina ^b   Freitas, Helena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Band dendrometer; Bimodal growth; Drought; Holm oak; Mediterranean climate

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIMODAL GROWTH; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; COASTAL SITES; DENDROMETER; DIFFERENT SCALE; HOLM OAK; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; MONTHLY SCALE; PRECIPITATION EFFECTS; QUERCUS ILEX; RADIAL FLUCTUATIONS; RADIAL GROWTH; RADIAL INCREMENT; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SHORT TIME SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-SCALES; TREE-RING WIDTH; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN;

CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; FACINGS; PLANT EXTRACTS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILEX; STEMS;

ILEX; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 79960314783     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-011-0540-3     Document Type: Article

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