Competition modulates the adaptation capacity of forests to climatic stress: Insights from recent growth decline and death in relict stands of the Mediterranean fir Abies pinsapo

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 592-603

  Linares, Juan Carlos ^a   Camarero, Jesús Julio ^b   Carreira, José Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abies pinsapo; Adaptive capacity; Basal area increment; Climatic change; Competition; Drought; Dynamic Factor Analysis; Global warming; Linear mixed models; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BASAL AREA; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DROUGHT; DROUGHT STRESS; EVERGREEN TREE; GLOBAL WARMING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RELICT SPECIES; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VULNERABILITY;

ABIES; ABIES PINSAPO;

EID: 77952917406     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01645.x     Document Type: Article

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