Relationship between annual rainfall and tree mortality in a tropical dry forest: Results of a 19-year study at Mudumalai, southern India

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 762-769

  Suresh, H S ^a   Dattaraja, H S ^a   Sukumar, R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Drought; Forest dynamics; Tropical dry forest; Western Ghats

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RAINFALL; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DRY SEASONS; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST TYPE; HERBIVORY; INTERANNUAL; MAIN AGENT; MORTALITY RATE; RAINFALL PATTERNS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SIZE CLASS; TEMPERATE FORESTS; TIME LAG; TREE MORTALITY; TROPICAL DRY FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL WET FOREST; WATER DEFICITS; WATER POTENTIAL; WET SEASON;

CLIMATOLOGY; CURING; DROUGHT; DYNAMICS; MAMMALS; TROPICS;

FORESTRY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; DRY FOREST; HERBIVORY; MORTALITY RISK; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

CURING; DROUGHT; DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; MAMMALS; METEOROLOGY; TROPICS;

INDIA; WESTERN GHATS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 73449086633     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.025     Document Type: Article

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