Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest

Journal of Climate

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3128-3147

  Swetnam, Thomas W ^a   Betancourt, Julio L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); VEGETATION;

DECADAL CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; TREE DEMOGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; PERTURBATION;

(SOUTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032427248     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<3128:MDAERT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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