Controls on gross production by a semiarid forest growing near its warm and dry ecotonal limit

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 169, Issue , 2013, Pages 51-60

  Fellows, Aaron W ^a   Goulden, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem function; Ecotone; Gross Primary Production; Low elevation forest; Mixed conifer forest; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BEDROCK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOTONE; ELEVATION; EVAPORATION; GROWING SEASON; MIXED FOREST; MORTALITY; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REGOLITH; SAPROLITE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL COLUMN; TRANSPIRATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84869879681     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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