Climatic trends and different drought adaptive capacity and vulnerability in a mixed Abies pinsapo-Pinus halepensis forest

Climatic Change

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-90

  Linares, Juan Carlos ^a   Delgado Huertas, Antonio ^b   Carreira, José Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY; BASAL AREA INCREMENT; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATIC DATA; CLIMATIC INFORMATIONS; CLIMATIC TRENDS; CONIFER TREES; DIE-OFF; DROUGHT STRESS; EXTREME EVENTS; GROWTH DECLINE; GROWTH REDUCTION; MANN-KENDALL TEST; MEDITERRANEAN FOREST; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PINE TREES; PRECIPITATION PATTERNS; QUANTILE REGRESSION; REGIONAL WARMING; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SOUTHERN SPAIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TEMPERATURE RISE; TEMPERATURE TRENDS; TREE POPULATION; TREE RINGS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WATER COSTS; WATER STRESS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISOTOPES; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BASAL AREA; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL ZONE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT; EVERGREEN TREE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MIXED FOREST; POPULATION GROWTH; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VULNERABILITY; WATER STRESS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ABIES PINSAPO; BASAL AREA; CONCENTRATION; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PRECIPITATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; ATLANTIC COAST [SPAIN]; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [SPAIN]; SPAIN;

ABIES; ABIES PINSAPO; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINUS HALEPENSIS;

EID: 79951812478     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9878-6     Document Type: Article

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