Consistent negative temperature sensitivity and positive influence of precipitation on growth of floodplain picea glauca in interior Alaska

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 561-573

  Juday, Glenn Patrick ^a   Alix, Claire ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; FLOOD PLAINS; NEGATIVE TEMPERATURES; PICEA GLAUCA; RADIAL GROWTH; RING WIDTH; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE INDEX; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED; TREE GROWTH; WHITE SPRUCE;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); FORESTRY; LASERS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FLOODPLAIN; GROWTH RATE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIMBER; TREE RING;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; FORESTRY; LASERS; STATISTICS;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 84857569143     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X2012-008     Document Type: Article

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