Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 706-717

  Babst, Flurin ^a   Poulter, Benjamin ^a,b   Trouet, Valerie ^c   Tan, Kun ^b   Neuwirth, Burkhard ^d   Wilson, Robert ^e   Carrer, Marco ^f   Grabner, Michael ^g   Tegel, Willy ^h   Levanic, Tom ⁱ   Panayotov, Momchil ^j   Urbinati, Carlo ^k   Bouriaud, Olivier ^l   Ciais, Philippe ^b   Frank, David ^a,m  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d DeLaWi TreeRingAnalyses   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

ⁱ SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY   (Bulgaria)

^k UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^l Institutul de Cercetari si Amenajari Silvice Romania   (Romania)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Climate impacts; Dendroclimatology; DGVM; Forest ecology; Forest productivity; LPJ; NPP; ORCHIDEE; Terrestrial carbon cycle; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TREE RING;

EUROPE; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 84877587907     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12023     Document Type: Article

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