Annual wood production in a tropical rain forest in NE Costa Rica linked to climatic variation but not to increasing CO2

Global Change Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 747-759

  Clark, David B ^a,b   Clark, Deborah A ^a,b   Oberbauer, Steven F ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b La Selva Biological Station   (Costa Rica)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; CO2 fertilization; Costa Rica; Drought; Global climate change; La Selva; Rainfall; Temperature; Tropical rain forest; Tropical tree growth

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; GLOBAL CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RAINFALL; RAINFOREST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL FOREST; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WOOD;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 77952988644     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02004.x     Document Type: Article

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