Spatio-temporal trends of oak decline and mortality under periodic regional drought in the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas and Missouri

Forests

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 614-631

  Fan, Zhaofei ^a   Fan, Xiuli ^a   Crosby, Michael K ^a   Moser, W Keith ^b   He, Hong ^c   Spetich, Martin A ^d   Shifley, Stephen R ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d Southern Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; Drought; Forest Inventory and Analysis; Kernel density smoothing; Oak decline

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUMULATIVE IMPACTS; FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS; FOREST LANDSCAPE; GROWING SEASON; HOT SPOT; KERNEL DENSITY; MISSOURIS; MORTALITY RATE; OAK DECLINE; OAK TREE; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; RED OAK; RELATIVE DENSITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; WHITE OAK;

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

FORESTRY;

CORRELATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST INVENTORY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CORRELATION; DENSITY; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; QUERCUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARKANSAS; MISSOURI; OZARK MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 84869240356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f3030614     Document Type: Article

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