Growth responses of West-Mediterranean Pinus nigra to climate change are modulated by competition and productivity: Past trends and future perspectives

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1030-1040

  Martin Benito, Dario ^a,b   Kint, Vincent ^c   del Río, Miren ^a   Muys, Bart ^c   Cañellas, Isabel ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Black pine; Forest growth modeling; Forest inventory; Global change; Mixed effects model; Tree ring analysis

Indexed keywords

BLACK PINE; FOREST GROWTH; FOREST INVENTORY; GLOBAL CHANGE; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; TREE-RING ANALYSIS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPETITION; FORESTRY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PRODUCTIVITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON EMISSION; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; FOREST INVENTORY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RESPONSE; LINEARITY; MIXED FOREST; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; STAND STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING;

EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; INVENTORY CONTROL; PINUS NIGRA; PLANTS; PRODUCTIVITY;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

PINUS NIGRA;

EID: 79960036574     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.05.038     Document Type: Article

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