Different growth sensitivity to climate of the conifer Juniperus thurifera on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea

International Journal of Biometeorology

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2095-2109

  DeSoto, Lucía ^a   Varino, Filipa ^b   Andrade, José P ^a   Gouveia, Celia M ^b   Campelo, Filipe ^a   Trigo, Ricardo M ^b   Nabais, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendrochronology; Juniper; Mediterranean basin; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROPHYTA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS THURIFERA;

RAIN; SNOW;

CLIMATE; DROUGHT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; JUNIPERUS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOROCCO; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE; DROUGHTS; JUNIPERUS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MOROCCO; RAIN; SNOW; SPAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84911812041     PISSN: 00207128     EISSN: 14321254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-014-0811-y     Document Type: Article

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