Dendrochronological analysis of baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) responses to climate and contrasting flood regimes

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 423-436

  Keim, Richard F ^a   Amos, J Blake ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGING CLIMATE; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; DELTAIC PLAIN; ECOLOGICAL PROCESS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GROWTH RESPONSE; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; LOCAL CLIMATE; LONG TERM RECORDS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; WETLANDS;

ECOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FLOODING; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SWAMP; TREE RING;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; WETLANDS;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

TAXODIUM; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 84857537226     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X2012-001     Document Type: Article

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