The mortality of midwestern overstory oaks as a bioindicator of environmental stress

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1017-1027

  Pedersen, Brian S ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA   (Bulgaria)

^b DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioindicator; Biologic marker; Cross dating; Dendrochronology; Drought; Erythrobalanus; Lepidobalanus; Mea n chronology; Quercus; Tree growth; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MORTALITY;

CARYA; ERYTHROBALANUS; LEPIDOBALANUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 0033179065     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[1017:TMOMOO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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