Summer droughts limit tree growth across 10 temperate species on a productive forest site

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 306, Issue , 2013, Pages 142-149

  Weemstra, Monique ^a   Eilmann, Britta ^a   Sass Klaassen, Ute G W ^a   Sterck, Frank J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendrochronology; Drought; Groundwater table; Growth conditions; Shade tolerance

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FOREST PRODUCTIVITY; GROUND WATER TABLE; GROWTH CONDITIONS; POPULUS TRICHOCARPA; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS; SHADE TOLERANCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; GROUNDWATER; PRODUCTIVITY; WATER SUPPLY;

FORESTRY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GROWTH RATE; SHADE TOLERANCE;

CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; GROUND WATER; PRODUCTIVITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER SUPPLY;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84880418718     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.06.007     Document Type: Article

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