Pinyon pine (Pinus edulis) mortality and response to water addition across a three million year substrate age gradient in northern Arizona, USA

Plant and Soil

Volumn 357, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-102

  Looney, Christopher E ^a   Sullivan, Benjamin W ^a,b   Kolb, Thomas E ^a   Kane, Jeffrey M ^a   Hart, Stephen C ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth; Mortality; Pinus edulis; Pinyon pine; Substrate age gradient; Water additions; Water relations

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGE CLASS; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL PROPERTY; STAND STRUCTURE; SUBSTRATE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER STRESS;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

PINUS EDULIS;

EID: 84864118862     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1150-6     Document Type: Article

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