Climate response of five oak species in the eastern deciduous forest of the southern Appalachian mountains, USA

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 507-518

  Speer, James H ^a,c   Grissino Mayer, Henri D ^a   Orvis, Kenneth H ^a   Greenberg, Cathryn H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b North Carolina Arboretum   (United States)

^c INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIANS; CLIMATE DATUM; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATIC RESPONSE; CLOSED CANOPIES; DECIDUOUS FORESTS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTHS; GEORGIA; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORTH CAROLINA; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; QUERCUS; QUERCUS RUBRA; RED OAKS; REGIONAL CLIMATES; RESPONSE MODELS; SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES; WARMING CLIMATES; WHITE OAKS;

COMPETITION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FRUITS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT; EVERGREEN TREE; MOISTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE;

CLIMATES; COMPETITION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FRUITS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS COCCINEA; QUERCUS MONTANA; QUERCUS RUBRA; QUERCUS VELUTINA;

EID: 64849106708     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-194     Document Type: Article

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