Increasing drought sensitivity and decline of atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) in the moroccan middle atlas forests

Forests

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 777-796

  Linares, Juan C ^a   Taïqui, Lahcen ^b   Camarero, Jesús Julio ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^c FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Basal area increment; Cedrus atlantica; Climate change; Dendroecology; Drought; Forest structure; Partial redundancy analysis

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA INCREMENT; CEDRUS ATLANTICA; DENDROECOLOGY; FOREST STRUCTURE; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; REDUNDANCY;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DOMINANCE; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; GRAZING PRESSURE; GROWTH RATE; LOGGING (TIMBER); POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; STAND STRUCTURE;

CEDRUS ATLANTICA; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; FORESTRY;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MIDDLE ATLAS; MOROCCO;

ATLAS CEDAR; CEDRUS ATLANTICA; QUERCUS ROTUNDIFOLIA;

EID: 84869208052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f2030777     Document Type: Article

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