Elevation Pattern in Growth Coherency on the Southeastern Tibetan Plateau.

It is generally expected that inter-annual changes in radial growth among trees would be similar to the increase in altitude due to the limitation of increasingly harsher climatic factors. Here, we examine whether this pattern exists in alpine forests on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Increment c...

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Main Authors: Lixin Lyu, Xu Deng, Qi-Bin Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5042441?pdf=render