Climatic drivers of hourly to yearly tree radius variations along a 6°C natural warming gradient

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 168, Issue , 2013, Pages 36-46

  King, Gregory ^a,b   Fonti, Patrick ^a   Nievergelt, Daniel ^a   Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b   Frank, David ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altitudinal gradient; Dendrochronology; Dendrometer; Diurnal cycles; Larix decidua; Picea abies

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DIURNAL VARIATION; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIMESCALE;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

CONIFEROPHYTA; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84870214751     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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