Growth of mature boreal Norway spruce was not affected by elevated [CO 2] and/or air temperature unless nutrient availability was improved

Tree Physiology

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1192-1205

  Sigurdsson, Bjarni D ^a   Medhurst, Jane L ^b   Wallin, Göran ^c   Eggertsson, Olafur ^d   Linder, Sune ^e  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d Icelandic Forest Research   (Iceland)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Global climate change; Nitrogen limitation; Picea abies

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; FERTILITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROWTH RATE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STEM; TREE;

SWEDEN;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NITROGEN LIMITATION; NORWAY; NORWAY SPRUCE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; SEASON; SOIL; SPRUCE; TAIGA; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

BOREAL FOREST; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE; NITROGEN LIMITATION; PICEA ABIES;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; NITROGEN; NORWAY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PICEA; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SEASONS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84890253159     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpt043     Document Type: Article

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