Spatial diversity of recent trends in Mediterranean tree growth

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Galván, J Diego ^a,b   Camarero, J Julio ^b   Ginzler, C ^a   Buntgen U ^a,c,d  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

change; dendroecology; drought climatology; Mediterranean Basin; tree ring research

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY;

CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGICAL FACTORS; DENDROECOLOGY; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST SPECIES; PRECIPITATION REGIMES; TREE RINGS;

FORESTRY;

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84905715363     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/8/084001     Document Type: Article

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