Novel hydraulic vulnerability proxies for a boreal conifer species reveal that opportunists may have lower survival prospects under extreme climatic events

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue June2016, 2016, Pages

  Rosner, Sabine ^a   Svĕtlík, Jan ^b   Andreassen, Kjell ^c   Børja, Isabella ^c   Dalsgaard, Lise ^c   Evans, Robert ^d   Luss, Saskia ^a   Tveito, Ole E ^e   Solberg, Svein ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climatic extremes; Conduit wall reinforcement; Functional wood anatomy; Global warming; Norway spruce; Picea abies; Top dieback

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973891164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00831     Document Type: Article

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