TABLE 4.
Characteristics of the sole C. turcicum collection site at Yedipinar village, Sivrice district, Elazig province, Turkey based on geographic data extracted from Garmin Montana 650 and climate data from WorldClim (Hijmans et al., 2005) and 10 min Climatology (New et al., 2002), calculated over the indicated growing season phases.
Descriptor | Site mean | Pre-season (July-Oct) | Veg phase (Oct-May) | Rep phase (May-June) | Season total |
Latitude (°d) | 38.4175 | ||||
Longitude (°d) | 39.1782 | ||||
Elevation (m) | 1548 | ||||
Mean temp (°C) | 3.9 | 17.1 | 6.8 | ||
Min temp (°C) | −6.6 | ||||
Max temp (°C) | 26.0 | ||||
Temp change (°C/day) | 0.1 | ||||
Frost days (sum) | 94 | 1 | 94 | ||
Precipitation (sum, mm) | 15 | 554 | 88 | 642 | |
Precipitation CV (%) | 59 | 81 | 64 | ||
Rain days (sum) | 82 | 17 | 98 | ||
Rel humidity (%) | 66 | 44 | 61 | ||
Sun hrs (%/day) | 52 | 75 | 58 |