Climate responses and interrelations of stem increment and crown transparency in Norway spruce, Scots pine, and common beech

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 284, Issue , 2012, Pages 196-204

  Seidling, Walter ^a   Ziche, Daniel ^a   Beck, Wolfgang ^a  

^a Institute for Forest Ecology and Forest Inventory (WOI)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defoliation; Early spring temperature; Intensive forest monitoring; Linear mixed model (LMM); Summer precipitation; Summer temperature

Indexed keywords

DEFOLIATION; FOREST MONITORING; LINEAR MIXED MODELS; SPRING TEMPERATURES; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; SUMMER TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE MODELS; DRYERS (EQUIPMENT); PLANTS (BOTANY); TRANSPARENCY;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEFOLIATION; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SILVICULTURE; STEM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSPARENCY;

DEFOLIATION; DRIERS; FORESTS; PICEA ABIES; PRECIPITATION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPARENCE;

GERMANY;

FAGUS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84865497453     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.07.015     Document Type: Article

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