Mesoscale synchrony in quaking aspen establishment across the interior western US

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-397

  Kaye, Margot W ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; Climate; Fire; Meta analysis; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ASPEN DYNAMICS; ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATE; LANDSCAPE SCALE; LOCAL CONDITIONS; MESO SCALE; META-ANALYSIS; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTHERN ARIZONA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; WYOMING;

EMPLOYMENT;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; LANDSCAPE; META-ANALYSIS; MOISTURE CONTENT; MORTALITY; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 79958032372     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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