Vulnerability of white spruce tree growth in interior Alaska in response to climate variability: Dendrochronological, demographic, and experimental perspectives

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1197-1209

  McGuire, A David ^a   Ruess, Roger W ^a   Lloyd, A ^b   Yarie, J ^a   Clein, Joy S ^a   Juday, Glenn P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE WARMING; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY; FLOOD PLAINS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LANDSCAPE POSITIONS; PICEA GLAUCA; PLANT WATER; RIVER WATER; SOIL MOISTURE AVAILABILITY; TREE GROWTH; WHITE SPRUCE;

CLIMATOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOIL MOISTURE;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEMOGRAPHY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOODPLAIN; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; RIVER WATER; SOIL MOISTURE; SUCCESSION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VULNERABILITY; WARMING; WATER BUDGET;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CLIMATES; FORESTRY; GROWTH; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; PICEA ENGELMANNII; SOIL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREES;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 77955143528     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-206     Document Type: Article

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