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The cold range limit of trees
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 4637500
Author(s) Körner, Christian
Author(s) at UniBasel Körner, Christian
Year 2021
Title The cold range limit of trees
Journal Trends in ecology & evolution
Volume 36
Number 11
Pages / Article-Number 979-989
Abstract At high elevation or latitude, trees reach low-temperature range limits. In attempting an explanation, the range limits of individual tree species (set by freezing tolerance) and the general limit of the life-form tree (set by thermal growth constraints) need to be distinguished. The general cold edge of the fun-damental niche of trees is termed the treeline, by definition, the lower edge of the alpine belt, a most important bioclimatological reference line. Trees can be absent from the treeline due to disturbances or biotic interactions. The actual local edge of tree distribution, the delineation of the realized niche, is driven by stochastic effects. Therefore, treeline theory and hypothesis testing is inevitably tied to the fundamental niche concept.
ISSN/ISBN 0169-5347
edoc-URL https://edoc.unibas.ch/86579/
Full Text on edoc No
Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2021.06.011
PubMed ID http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34272073
ISI-Number 000709722700008
Document type (ISI) Journal Article, Review
 
   

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