Variation in intra-annual wood formation, foliage and shoot development of three major Canadian boreal tree species

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 827-837

  Zhai, Lihong ^a   Bergeron, Yves ^b   Huang, Jian Guo ^c   Berninger, Frank ^a  

^a Centre d'etude de la foret Montreal   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Betula papyrifera; Growth dynamics; Intra annual wood formation; Meteorological factors; Pinus banksiana; Populus tremuloides; Tree phenology

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOLIAGE; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; PHENOLOGY; SHOOT; STEM; WOOD;

ARTICLE; BIRCH; CANADA; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PINE; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; POPULUS; SEASON; TREE; WOOD; XYLEM;

BETULA; CANADA; CELL COUNT; ECOSYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; PINUS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT SHOOTS; POPULUS; SEASONS; TREES; WOOD; XYLEM;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

BETULA PAPYRIFERA; PINUS BANKSIANA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 84860574742     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100235     Document Type: Article

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