Drought's legacy: Multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends increased future risk

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1188-1196

  Anderegg, William ^a,b   Plavcová, Lenka ^c   Anderegg, Leander D L ^b   Hacke, Uwe G ^c   Berry, Joseph A ^b   Field, Christopher B ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biosphere atmosphere interactions; Climate change; Ecosystem shift; Forest mortality; Vegetation model; Xylem cavitation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DIEBACK; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; RISK; TREE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; RISK; TREES;

NORTH AMERICA;

POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 84874745789     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12100     Document Type: Article

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