Are wood fibres as sensitive to environmental conditions as vessels in tree rings with intra-annual density fluctuations (IADFs) in Mediterranean species?

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 971-983

  De Micco, Veronica ^a   Battipaglia, Giovanna ^b,c,d   Balzano, Angela ^a   Cherubini, Paolo ^e   Aronne, Giovanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^e SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fibre; Intra annual density fluctuations (IADFs); Mediterranean ecosystems; Vessel; Water conducting cells; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FIBERS; FORESTRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS; INTRA-ANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTRAANNUAL DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS (IADFS); MEDITERRANEAN ECOSYSTEM; VESSEL; WOOD ANATOMY;

WOOD;

EID: 84950258869     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-015-1338-5     Document Type: Article

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