Big eucalypts grow more slowly in a warm climate: Evidence of an interaction between tree size and temperature

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2793-2799

  Prior, Lynda D ^a   Bowman, David M J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Climatic gradient; Continental scale; Eucalyptus; Tall trees; Temperature; Tree growth; Water availability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RATE; SIZE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE; TREE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUCALYPTUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; EUCALYPTUS; LINEAR MODELS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84905126475     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12540     Document Type: Article

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