Drought negatively affects communities on a foundation tree: Growth rings predict diversity

Oecologia

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 751-761

  Stone, Adrian C ^a,b   Gehring, Catherine A ^a,b   Whitham, Thomas G ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Merriam Powell Center for Environmental Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod community; Drought stress; Multi trophic comparisons; Pinus edulis; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOLIAGE; FUNGUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE RING; VIGOR;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; MYCORRHIZAE; PINUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPODA; FUNGI; PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 77958009143     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1684-3     Document Type: Article

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