Local adaptations to frost in marginal and central populations of the dominant forest tree Fagus sylvatica L. as affected by temperature and extreme drought in common garden experiments

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 594-605

  Kreyling, Juergen ^a   Buhk, Constanze ^b   Backhaus, Sabrina ^a   Hallinger, Martin ^c   Huber, Gerhard ^d   Huber, Lukas ^b   Jentsch, Anke ^a   Konnert, Monika ^d   Thiel, Daniel ^d   Wilmking, Martin ^c   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b Landau University   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^d Bavarian Institute for Forest Seeding and Planting (ASP)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Common garden experiment; European beech; Frost; Local adaptation; Minimum temperature; Mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897624320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.971     Document Type: Article

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