Tree-rings reflect the impact of climate change on Quercus ilex L. along a temperature gradient in Spain over the last 100years

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1807-1816

  Gea Izquierdo, G ^a   Cherubini, P ^a   Canellas I ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competition; Dendroecology; Drought; Non linear response; Water stress

Indexed keywords

CANOPY OPENING; CURRENT INCREASE; DECIDUOUS SPECIES; DENDROECOLOGY; FIRST PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; FOREST STAND; GROWTH DECLINE; GROWTH TRENDS; HYDROLOGICAL YEARS; MATRIX; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MIXED MODELS; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION LEVEL; QUERCUS ILEX; SITE-SPECIFIC; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREE GROWTH; TREE RINGS; TREE STRUCTURES; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER STRESS;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NONLINEARITY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATER STRESS;

CLIMATES; COMPETITION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMING; PLANTS; PRODUCTIVITY; SPAIN; WATER;

SPAIN;

ILEX; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 80052724790     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.07.025     Document Type: Article

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