Mortality of developing floodplain forests subjected to a drying climate and water extraction

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2176-2186

  Horner, Gillis J ^a   Baker, Patrick J ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Cunningham, Shaun C ^a   Thomson, James R ^a   Hamilton, Fiona ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Eucalyptus camaldulensis; Floodplain forests; Mortality; River regulation; Stand density; Water extraction; Water table

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIEBACK; DROUGHT; FLOODPLAIN FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; MORTALITY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS CAMALDULENSIS;

EID: 68549115533     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01915.x     Document Type: Article

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