Environmental drivers of spatial variation in whole-tree transpiration in an aspen-dominated upland-to-wetland forest gradient

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Loranty, Michael M ^a   Mackay, D Scott ^a   Ewers, Brent E ^b   Adelman, Jonathan D ^b   Kruger, Eric L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WETLANDS;

SPATIAL PATTERNS; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

TRANSPIRATION;

FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSPIRATION; WETLANDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EVERGREEN TREE; GEOSTATISTICS; MODEL; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STAND STRUCTURE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TRANSPIRATION;

FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSPIRATION; WETLANDS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ALNUS; ALNUS INCANA; CHAMAECYPARIS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 41149140217     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006272     Document Type: Article

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