Climate-growth relationships of subalpine fir (Abies fargesii) across the altitudinal range in the Shennongjia Mountains, central China

Climatic Change

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 903-917

  Dang, Haishan ^a   Zhang, Yanjun ^a   Zhang, Kerong ^a   Jiang, Mingxi ^a   Zhang, Quanfa ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL CHINAS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; GROWTH RESPONSE; LOWER LIMITS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RADIAL GROWTH; SUB-ALPINE FIR;

LASERS;

LANDFORMS;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROECOLOGY; EVERGREEN FOREST; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

CHINA; HUBEI; SHENNONGJIA;

ABIES; ABIES FARGESII; ABIES LASIOCARPA;

EID: 84874949880     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0611-5     Document Type: Article

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