Structural and climatic determinants of demographic rates of Scots pine forests across the Iberian Peninsula

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1162-1172

  Vila Cabrera, Albert ^a   Martinez Vilalta, Jordi ^a,b   Vayreda, Jordi ^a   Retana, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dryness; Forest structure; Growth; Iberian Peninsula; Land use changes; Mortality; National Forest Inventory of Spain; Pinus sylvestris; Regeneration; Scots pine

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH; LAND USE CHANGE; LINEARITY; MORTALITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STAND STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCOTS PINE; SPAIN; TIME;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 79958820955     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0647.1     Document Type: Article

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