Variation of xylem vessel diameters across a climate gradient: Insight from a reciprocal transplant experiment with a widespread boreal tree

Functional Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1392-1401

  Schreiber, Stefan G ^a   Hacke, Uwe G ^a   Hamann, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspen; Assisted migration; Climate change; Common garden; Forest management; Genotype environment interaction; Plant hydraulics; Plasticity; Populus tremuloides; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPIRATION; XYLEM;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 84945439159     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12455     Document Type: Article

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