Drought sensitivity of three co-occurring conifers within a dry inner Alpine environment

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-69

  Schuster, Roman ^a   Oberhuber, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Basal area increment; Dendroclimatology; Inner Alpine valley; Moving response function; Radial growth; Tree ring analysis

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; SOIL MOISTURE;

ALPINE VALLEYS; BASAL AREA INCREMENT; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; RADIAL GROWTH; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; TREE-RING ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; DROUGHT; METEOROLOGY; SOFTWOODS; WATER SUPPLY;

ABIES; CONIFERALES; CONIFEROPHYTA; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84872490208     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-012-0768-6     Document Type: Article

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