Plasticity in dendroclimatic response across the distribution range of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  De Luis, Martin ^a   Čufar, Katarina ^b   Di Filippo, Alfredo ^c   Novak, Klemen ^a   Papadopoulos, Andreas ^d   Piovesan, Gianluca ^c   Rathgeber, Cyrille B K ^e   Raventós, José ^f   Saz, Miguel Angel ^a   Smith, Kevin T ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^d TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

^e CEMAGREF   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^g USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PINE; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT GROWTH; PLASTICITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PINUS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84896708176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083550     Document Type: Article

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