Climatic response and impacts of drought on oaks at urban and forest sites

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 597-605

  Gillner, Sten ^a   Vogt, Juliane ^a   Roloff, Andreas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate growth relationship; Dendrochronology; Drought response; Quercus petraea; Quercus rubra; Street trees

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECIDUOUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RESPONSE; NATURE RESERVE; TREE RING; URBAN AREA;

DRESDEN; GERMANY; SAXONY;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 84888042515     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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