Landscape-scale assessment of tree crown dieback following extreme drought and heat in a Mediterranean eucalypt forest ecosystem

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-80

  Brouwers, Niels ^a   Matusick, George ^a   Ruthrof, Katinka ^a   Lyons, Thomas ^a   Hardy, Giles ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Die off; Dieback; Drought effects; Forest mortality; Geology; Heat effects; Soils; Topography; Tree mortality; Warming

Indexed keywords

ABATEMENT COST; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DICOTYLEDON; DIEBACK; DROUGHT; ELEVATION; EXTREME EVENT; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MORTALITY; OUTCROP; PERSISTENCE; SLOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOPOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA;

EID: 84872653615     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9815-3     Document Type: Article

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