Temperature and rainfall strongly drive temporal growth variation in Asian tropical forest trees

2013/12/18 by Mart Vlam, Patrick J. Baker, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin +1 · 144 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Atmospheric sciences #Biology #Canopy #Climate change #Dendrochronology #Dry season #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Ecosystem #Geography #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics #Precipitation #Subtropics #Tree-ring climate responses #Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests #Tropical climate #Tropical savanna climate #Tropics #Understory #Wet season

paper · open access · doi:10.1007/s00442-013-2846-x

published in Oecologia 174(4), 1449-1461 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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