A 6-year-long manipulation with soil warming and canopy nitrogen additions does not affect xylem phenology and cell production of mature black spruce

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue NOVEMBER, 2015, Pages

  Dao, Madjelia C E ^a   Rossi, Sergio ^b   Walsh, Denis ^b   Morin, Hubert ^b   Houle, Daniel ^c,d  

^a INSTITUT DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE RECHERCHES AGRICOLES   (Burkina Faso)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À CHICOUTIMI   (Canada)

^c Service de la Sylviculture et du Rendement des Forêts   (Canada)

^d Consortium Sur la Climatologie Régionale et l’Adaptation aux Changements Climatiques ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Cambial activity; Climate change; Increased soil temperature; Intra annual growth; N deposition; Wood anatomy; Xylogenesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947439806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00877     Document Type: Article

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