Tree-growth responses across environmental gradients in subtropical Argentinean forests

Plant Ecology

Volumn 214, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1321-1334

  Ferrero, María Eugenia ^a   Villalba, Ricardo ^a   De Membiela, Mónica ^a,b   Ripalta, Alberto ^a   Delgado, Silvia ^a   Paolini, Leonardo ^c  

^a INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Climate responses; Dendroecology; Environmental gradients; Yungas and Chaco forests

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DENDROECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GROWTH RATE; MONTANE FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE;

ARGENTINA; BOLIVIA; LA PAZ [BOLIVIA]; YUNGAS;

ALNUS; ALNUS ACUMINATA; CEDRELA; CEDRELA LILLOI; JUGLANS; JUGLANS AUSTRALIS; SCHINOPSIS QUEBRACHO-COLORADO;

EID: 84885906365     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-013-0254-2     Document Type: Article

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