Growth response of five co-occurring conifers to drought across a wide climatic gradient in Central Europe

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 197, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-12

  Lévesque, Mathieu ^a,b   Rigling, Andreas ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^b   Weber, Pascale ^a   Brang, Peter ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dendroecology; Larix; PDSI; Picea; Pinus; Pseudotsuga

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; COEXISTENCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RESPONSE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ALPS; JURA MOUNTAINS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84902958811     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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