Multiple interacting ecosystem drivers: Toward an encompassing hypothesis of oak forest dynamics across eastern North America

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 244-256

  McEwan, Ryan W ^a   Dyer, James M ^b   Pederson, Neil ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT; FOREST DYNAMICS; HERBIVORE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAND USE CHANGE; LITERATURE REVIEW; MOISTURE CONTENT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEED PREDATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

ACER; CASTANEA DENTATA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 79953275798     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06390.x     Document Type: Article

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