Does soil organic layer thickness affect climate-growth relationships in the black spruce boreal ecosystem?

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 556-574

  Drobyshev, Igor ^a,d   Simard, Martin ^b   Bergeron, Yves ^a   Hofgaard, Annika ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendroecology; Paludification; Soil conditions; Succession

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROECOLOGY; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FLOOR; GROWING SEASON; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUCCESSION;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

PICEA; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 77953535144     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9340-7     Document Type: Article

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