Climate-diameter growth relationships of black spruce and jack pine trees in boreal Ontario, Canada

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 505-516

  Subedi, Nirmal ^a   Sharma, Mahadev ^a  

^a ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Climate growth relationship; Diameter growth model; Forest management; Growing season temperature; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PINE; SEASON; SPRUCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ONTARIO; PICEA; PINUS; SEASONS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 84871932776     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12033     Document Type: Article

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