Geographic and temporal patterns in white spruce climate-growth relationships in Yukon, Canada

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 267, Issue , 2012, Pages 215-227

  Griesbauer, Hardy P ^a   Green, D Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forests; Climate growth relationships; Dendroecology; Tree rings; White spruce; Yukon

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; CLIMATE-GROWTH RELATIONSHIPS; DENDROECOLOGY; TREE RINGS; WHITE SPRUCE; YUKON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT; ELEVATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; LIMITING FACTOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING; VULNERABILITY;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CANADA; CLIMATES; ECOLOGY; GROWTH; PICEA ENGELMANNII; RINGS; STATISTICS;

CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 84855214902     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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