Tree growth response along an elevational gradient: Climate or genetics?

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1587-1600

  King, Gregory M ^a,b   Gugerli, Felix ^a   Fonti, Patrick ^a   Frank, David C ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alps; Climate impact; Dendrochronology; Forest productivity; Gene flow

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ELEVATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TREE RING;

ALPS;

LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

PLANT DNA;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARIX; POPULATION GENETICS; SEASON; SPRUCE; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; DNA, PLANT; GENE FLOW; GENETICS, POPULATION; LARIX; PICEA; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84888344289     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2696-6     Document Type: Article

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