Population variation in growth and 15-year-old shoot elongation along geographic and climatic gradients in black spruce in Alberta

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1691-1702

  Wei, Run Peng ^a   Sang, Don Han ^b   Dhir, Narinder K ^d   Yeh, Francis C ^c  

^a Sino Forest Corporation   (Hong Kong)

^b Korea Forest Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d Forest Management Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MOISTURE; SEED; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

POPULATION VARIATIONS; QUADRATIC REGRESSIONS; SHOOT ELONGATION;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RATE; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; SILVICULTURE;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GEOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS; MOISTURE; PICEA; SEEDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EMBRYOPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 8644243207     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X04-050     Document Type: Article

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