Winter precipitation effect in a mid-latitude temperature-limited environment: The case of common juniper at high elevation in the Alps

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Pellizzari, Elena ^a   Pividori, Mario ^a   Carrer, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

climate growth response; Juniperus communis; snow cover; tree ring; winter precipitation

Indexed keywords

SNOW; TEMPERATURE;

GROWTH RESPONSE; JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS; SNOW COVERS; TREE RINGS; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE MODELING; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATING METHOD; LATITUDE; METEOROLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREE RING;

CLIMATES; JUNIPERUS; PRECIPITATION; SNOW;

ALPS;

CONIFEROPHYTA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 84928714195     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/104021     Document Type: Article

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