Landscape-level variation in forest response to hurricane disturbance across a storm track

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2942-2950

  Busby, Posy E ^a,b   Motzkin, Glenn ^a   Boose, Emery R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH (MATERIALS); SPEED; WIND EFFECTS;

ATLANTIC HURRICANES; FOREST DAMAGES; FUTURE CLIMATES; GROWTH RESPONSES; HURRICANE INTENSITIES; NEW ENGLAND; SITE CONDITIONS; STORM CENTERS; STORM TRACKS; STUDY SITES; TREE GROWTHS; WIND DAMAGES; WIND SPEEDS;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH; HURRICANE; LANDSCAPE; STORM; VEGETATION; WIND VELOCITY;

NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57849095909     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-139     Document Type: Article

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