Temperature and rainfall strongly drive temporal growth variation in Asian tropical forest trees

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1449-1461

  Vlam, Mart ^a   Baker, Patrick J ^b   Bunyavejchewin, Sarayudh ^c   Zuidema, Pieter A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Climate growth relationship; Global change; Thailand; Tree rings; Tropical tree

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FOREST CANOPY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; PHENOLOGY; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

THAILAND;

CARBON; RAIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; THAILAND; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LINEAR MODELS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE; THAILAND; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER;

EID: 84896314083     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2846-x     Document Type: Article

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