Possibilities and limitations of using historic provenance tests to infer forest species growth responses to climate change

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 409-433

  Leites, Laura P ^a   Rehfeldt, Gerald E ^b   Robinson, Andrew P ^c   Crookston, Nicholas L ^a   Jaquish, Barry ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change response functions; Genotype by environment interaction; Larix occidentalis Nutt; Linear mixed effects models; Provenance tests; Provenance transfer functions

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; FORESTRY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CLIMATE-CHANGE RESPONSE FUNCTION; GENOTYPE-BY-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH RESPONSE; LARIX OCCIDENTALI NUTT; LINEAR MIXED-EFFECTS MODEL; MODELING APPROACH; PROVENANCE TESTS; PROVENANCE TRANSFER FUNCTION; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; TEST DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

LARIX; LARIX OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 84864763753     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2012.00129.x     Document Type: Article

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