White spruce meets black spruce: Dispersal, postfire establishment, and growth in a warming climate

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 489-505

  Wirth, C ^a   Lichstein, J W ^b   Dushoff, J ^b   Chen, A ^b   Chapin III, F S ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Black spruce; Detrended correspondence analysis; Fire severity; Longdistance dispersed; Negative binomial; Organic layer; Pecruitment; Permafrost; Spruce seedling identification; Survival; White spruce

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DISPERSAL; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVERGREEN TREE; FLOODPLAIN; GROWTH RATE; MASTING; PERMAFROST; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL; WARMING;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 63849301074     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0074.1     Document Type: Article

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