Influences of large-scale climatic variability on episodic tree mortality in northern Patagonia

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2624-2640

  Villalba, Ricardo ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^b  

^a INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Austrocedrus chilensis; Climatic variability; Dendrochronology; Drought; El Nino Southern Oscillation; Forest dynamics; Northern Patagonia; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; EPISODIC EVENT; MORTALITY; TREE;

ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA;

AUSTROCEDRUS CHILENSIS;

EID: 0032420194     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[2624:IOLSCV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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