Widespread increase of tree mortality rates in the Western United States

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5913, 2009, Pages 521-524

  Van Mantgem, Phillip J ^a   Stephenson, Nathan L ^a   Byrne, John C ^b   Daniels, Lori D ^c   Franklin, Jerry F ^d   Fulé, Peter Z ^e   Harmon, Mark E ^f   Larson, Andrew J ^d   Smith, Jeremy M ^g   Taylor, Alan H ^h   Veblen, Thomas T ^g  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; WATER;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; TREE;

ARTICLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DOMINANT GENE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIRE; FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PLANT ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DOMINANCE; TREE; UNITED STATES; WATER DEFICIT;

ABIES; CLIMATE; CONIFEROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; PINUS; TEMPERATURE; TREES; TSUGA; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58849122697     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165000     Document Type: Article

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