Using a retrospective dynamic competition index to reconstruct forest succession

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 254, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 96-106

  Weber, Pascale ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^b   Fonti, Patrick ^a   Rigling, Andreas ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendroecology; Drought; Individual trees; Land use change; Pinus sylvestris; Quercus pubescens

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY;

DENDROECOLOGY; INDIVIDUAL TREES; LAND USE CHANGE;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST DYNAMICS; INDEX METHOD; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LAND USE CHANGE; RECONSTRUCTION; STAND STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION;

CLIMATES; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS PUBESCENS;

EID: 36749040756     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.07.031     Document Type: Article

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