Drought characteristics' role in widespread aspen forest mortality across Colorado, USA

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1526-1537

  Anderegg, Leander D L ^a   Anderegg, William R L ^a,b   Abatzoglou, John ^c   Hausladen, Alexandra M ^b   Berry, Joseph A ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought; Forest mortality; Plant ecophysiology; Populus tremuloides; Stable isotopes; Water use

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DROUGHT; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FOREST COVER; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PLANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; WATER USE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULUS; SEASON; SOIL; UNITED STATES; XYLEM;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLORADO; DROUGHTS; GROUNDWATER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULUS; SEASONS; SOIL; WATER; XYLEM;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 84875835361     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12146     Document Type: Article

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