Meteorological forcing of day-to-day stem radius variations of beech is highly synchronic on opposing aspects of a valley

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 181, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-93

  Van der Maaten, Ernst ^a   Bouriaud, Olivier ^b   van der Maaten Theunissen, Marieke ^a   Mayer, Helmut ^a   Spiecker, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b STEFAN CEL MARE UNIVERSITY OF SUCEAVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Daily fluctuations; Lagged effects; Mixed models; Point dendrometer; Stem size variations

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GROWTH RATE; METEOROLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SLOPE; STEM; VALLEY; WEATHER; WEIBULL THEORY;

GERMANY;

EID: 84882768663     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.07.009     Document Type: Article

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