High-resolution climatic analysis of wood anatomical features in Corsican pine from Corsica (France) using latewood tracheid profiles

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1279-1288

  Hetzer, Timo ^a   Bräuning, Achim ^a   Leuschner, Hanns Hubert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendroecology; France; Mediterranean climate; Pinus nigra; Wood anatomy; Wood cell parameters

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; WOOD;

DENDROECOLOGY; FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; PINUS NIGRA; WOOD ANATOMY; WOOD CELLS;

CELLS;

EID: 84920708763     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-014-1045-7     Document Type: Article

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