Impacts of drought at different time scales on forest growth across a wide climatic gradient in north-eastern Spain

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1800-1811

  Pasho, Edmond ^a,b   Camarero, J Julio ^a   de Luis, Martín ^c   Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Drought; Forest growth; Impacts; NE Spain; Standardized precipitation index (SPI)

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RATE; MONTANE FOREST; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; WOODLAND;

SPAIN;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS THURIFERA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS;

EID: 80054929042     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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