Inter- and intra-annual stable carbon and oxygen isotope signals in response to drought in Mediterranean pines

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 168, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-68

  Sarris, Dimitrios ^a   Siegwolf, Rolf ^b   Körner, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

13C; 18O; Climatic change; Mortality; Pinus; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RATE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TREE RING;

PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 84867785895     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.08.007     Document Type: Article

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