Mountain forest growth response to climate change in the Northern Limestone Alps

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 819-829

  Hartl Meier, Claudia ^a   Dittmar, Christoph ^b   Zang, Christian ^c   Rothe, Andreas ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Environmental Research and Education (UFB)   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Berchtesgaden Alps; Climate signal; Dendroecology; Elevational belts; Radial growth; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

BERCHTESGADEN ALPS; CLIMATE SIGNALS; DENDROECOLOGY; RADIAL GROWTH; TREE RINGS;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATES; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GROWTH; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ABIES; FAGUS; LARIX; PICEA;

EID: 84900872365     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-014-0994-1     Document Type: Article

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