Assessing Tropical Forests' Climatic Sensitivities with Long-term Data

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-40

  Clark, Deborah A ^a,b,c   Clark, David B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Estación Biológica La Selva   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Climate change; Costa Rica; Global change; Meteorology; Monitoring; Productivity; Temperature; Tree growth

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOME; CENSUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA QUALITY; DRY SEASON; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA; HEREDIA; LA SELVA;

EID: 78650718738     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00654.x     Document Type: Article

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