Observations from old forests underestimate climate change effects on tree mortality

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Luo, Yong ^a   Chen, Han Y H ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ESTIMATION METHOD; MORTALITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; REGIONAL PATTERN; STAND STRUCTURE; TREE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PINE; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SPRUCE; TREE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; TREES;

EID: 84877728494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2681     Document Type: Article

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