Annual ring widths are good predictors of changes in net primary productivity of alpine Rhododendron shrubs in the Sergyemla Mountains, southeast Tibet

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1843-1855

  Kong, Gaoqiang ^a,b   Luo, Tianxiang ^a   Liu, Xinsheng ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Liang, Eryuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine shrub; Carbon gain; Leaf traits; Ring width growth; Timberline

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CARBON SINK; COLD REGION; DICOTYLEDON; ECOTONE; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; LEAF; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SHRUB; TREE RING; TREELINE;

CHINA; SERGYEMLA MOUNTAINS; XIZANG;

RHODODENDRON;

EID: 84869090444     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-012-0140-3     Document Type: Article

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