Ensemble estimates reveal a complex hydroclimatic sensitivity of pine growth at Carpathian cliff sites

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 160, Issue , 2012, Pages 100-109

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b   Kaczka, Ryszard J ^c   Trnka, Miroslav ^d,e   Rigling, Andreas ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^d MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Dendroclimatology; Dendroecology; Drought; Tatra Mountains; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CLIFF; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RATE; PALEOCLIMATE; RANGE SIZE; TREE RING;

CARPATHIANS; TATRA MOUNTAINS;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84860645043     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.02.011     Document Type: Article

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