Western juniper and ponderosa pine ecotonal climate-growth relationships across landscape gradients in southern Oregon

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3021-3032

  Knutson, Kevin C ^a,b   Pyke, David A ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; MILITARY OPERATIONS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNDERWATER SOILS;

ANNUAL GROWTHS; CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; DROUGHT PERIODS; FOREST GROWTHS; GROWING SEASONS; GROWTH RESPONSES; HOLDING CAPACITIES; INCREASED TEMPERATURES; LANDSCAPE FEATURES; PINUS PONDEROSA; PONDEROSA PINES; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; RADIAL GROWTHS; SOIL WATERS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; STEEPER SLOPES; TREE GROWTHS; UNITED STATES; WARMER TEMPERATURES; WINTER PRECIPITATIONS;

GROWTH (MATERIALS);

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WOODLAND;

DROUGHT; FORESTRY; GROWTH; MATHEMATICS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; SOIL; TREES;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS OCCIDENTALIS; PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 57849132359     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-142     Document Type: Article

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