The contribution of competition to tree mortality in old-growth coniferous forests

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1203-1213

  Das, Adrian ^a   Battles, John ^a   Stephenson, Nathan L ^b   van Mantgem, Phillip J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Neighborhood analysis; Spatial pattern; Tree demography; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; COMPETITION MODEL; COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT; CONIFEROUS FORESTS; DATA SETS; FIELD ASSESSMENT; INDIVIDUAL TREE; MATURE FOREST; NEIGHBORHOOD ANALYSIS; OLD-GROWTH; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; RANDOM MECHANISMS; SIERRA NEVADA; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION; SPATIAL PATTERN; SPATIAL PATTERN ANALYSIS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPERATE FORESTS; TREE DEMOGRAPHY; TREE MORTALITY;

FORESTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

COMPETITION;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATE FOREST;

COMPETITION; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USA; VARIABLES;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951948183     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.12.035     Document Type: Article

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