Radial-growth forecasts for five high-elevation conifer species on Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 183, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 313-325

  Laroque, Colin P ^a   Smith, Dan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coupled general circulation model; High elevation conifer species; Radial growth forecasts

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORECASTING; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

RADIAL-GROWTH;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GROWTH MODELING; MONTANE FOREST;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

CONIFEROPHYTA; CONIUM MACULATUM; TSUGA MERTENSIANA;

EID: 0041693018     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00110-5     Document Type: Article

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