Climatic control of tracheid production of black spruce in dense mesic stands of eastern Canada

Tree Physiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 175-186

  Dufour, Boris ^a   Morin, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black spruce; Boreal forest; Cambium; Climate change; Dendroclimatology; Dendroecology; Tracheid; Tree ring anatomy

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; HUMIDITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAMPLING; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STAND STRUCTURE; TREE RING; WATER CONTENT;

ARTICLE; CAMBIUM; CANADA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPRUCE; TEMPERATURE; TREE; WOOD; XYLEM;

CAMBIUM; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PICEA; QUEBEC; TEMPERATURE; TREES; WATER; WOOD; XYLEM;

CANADA;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 84876379085     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps126     Document Type: Article

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