Aspen, climate, and sudden decline in western USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2353-2364

  Rehfeldt, Gerald E ^a   Ferguson, Dennis E ^a   Crookston, Nicholas L ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioclimate models; Climate responses; Climatic niche; Global warming impacts; Sudden aspen decline

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATE RESPONSES; CLIMATIC NICHE; GLOBAL WARMING IMPACTS; SUDDEN ASPEN DECLINE;

GLOBAL WARMING; SURVEYS;

ERRORS;

AERIAL SURVEY; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DICOTYLEDON; FOREST INVENTORY; GLOBAL WARMING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 70349751939     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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