Variability of climate-growth relationships along an elevation gradient in the Changbai Mountain, northeastern China

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1133-1139

  Chen, Li ^a,b   Wu, Shaohong ^a   Pan, Tao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dendroclimatology; Elevation; Larix olgensis; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

CHANGBAI MOUNTAINS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ELEVATION; ELEVATION GRADIENT; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH PATTERNS; GROWTH-LIMITING FACTOR; HIGH ELEVATION; LARIX OLGENSIS; LOW TEMPERATURES; MEAN TEMPERATURE; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; SAMPLING SITE; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TOTAL PRECIPITATION; TREE GROWTH; TREE-RING; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES; TREE-RING WIDTH;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHINA; FORESTRY; FORESTS; GROWTH; LARIX OLGENSIS; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

LARIX; LARIX GMELINII VAR. OLGENSIS;

EID: 81155131126     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-011-0588-0     Document Type: Article

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