Norway spruce physiological and anatomical predisposition to dieback

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 322, Issue , 2014, Pages 27-36

  Hentschel, Rainer ^a,e   Rosner, Sabine ^b   Kayler, Zachary E ^a   Andreassen, Kjell ^c   Børja, Isabella ^c   Solberg, Svein ^c   Tveito, Ole Einar ^d   Priesack, Eckart ^e   Gessler, Arthur ^a,f  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon starvation; Hydraulic failure; Picea abies; Stable isotope; Water use efficiency; Wood density

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; HARDWOODS; ISOTOPES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS;

CARBON STARVATION; HYDRAULIC FAILURE; PICEA ABIES; STABLE ISOTOPES; WATER USE EFFICIENCY; WOOD DENSITY;

FORESTRY;

CARBON; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; HARDWOODS; ISOTOPES; PHYSIOLOGY; PICEA ABIES; PLANTS;

EID: 84898405419     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.03.007     Document Type: Article

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