Climate response of tree-ring width in Larix sibirica growing in the drought-stressed forest-steppe ecotone of northern Mongolia

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 275-282

  Dulamsuren, Choimaa ^a   Hauck, Markus ^a   Leuschner, Hanns Hubert ^a   Leuschner, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest steppe ecotone; Global warming; Larix sibirica; Lymantria dispar; Tree ring analysis

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ECOTONE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; HERBIVORE; LIMITING FACTOR; MOTH; PEST CONTROL; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SNOW; SNOW COVER; STEPPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING;

MONGOLIA;

HEXAPODA; LARIX; LARIX SIBIRICA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR;

EID: 80051479874     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-011-0043-9     Document Type: Article

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