Linking wood anatomy and xylogenesis allows pinpointing of climate and drought influences on growth of coexisting conifers in continental Mediterranean climate

Tree Physiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 502-512

  Pacheco, Arturo ^a   Camarero, J Julio ^b   Carrer, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

intra annual density fluctuation; Juniperus thurifera; Pinus halepensis; quantitative wood anatomy; radial growth; xylem

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON FIXATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; COEXISTENCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROWTH RATE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TREE RING; WOOD; XYLEM;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CUPRESSACEAE; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS THURIFERA; PINACEAE; PINUS HALEPENSIS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; JUNIPERUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; WOOD; XYLEM;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; JUNIPERUS; PINUS; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84966649859     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpv125     Document Type: Article

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