Pushed to the limit: Consequences of climate change for the Araucariaceae: A relictual rain forest family

Annals of Botany

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 347-357

  Offord, Catherine A ^a  

^a The Australian Botanic Garden   (Australia)

Author keywords

Araucariaceae; climate change; frost; Hardiness; high temperature; rain forest

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FROST; ICE; LANDSCAPE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOLERANCE; WILD POPULATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT LEAF;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROPHYTA; PLANT LEAVES; RAIN;

AUSTRALIA;

AGATHIS (CONIFER); AGATHIS ATROPURPUREA; AGATHIS MICROSTACHYA; AGATHIS ROBUSTA; ARAUCARIACEAE; WOLLEMIA NOBILIS;

EID: 79961039222     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr135     Document Type: Article

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