The role of stress in the mortality of Midwestern oaks as indicated by growth prior to death

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-93

  Phdersen, Brian S ^a,b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROANOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Drought effects on oak trees; Environmental stresses cf. tree growth and survival; Intervention analysis; Oak hickory forest in Midwestern United States; Quercus, sections Lepidobalanus and Erythrobalanus; Statistical models of tree growth; Stress effects on tree vigor; Time series regression analysis; Tree growth prior to death; Tree mortality; Tree ring analysis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH; MORTALITY; TREE;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

CARYA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; ERYTHROBALANUS; LEPIDOBALANUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 0031708430     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/176866     Document Type: Article

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