Resilience in Quaking Aspen: Recent advances and future needs

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 299, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-5

  Rogers, Paul C ^a   Eisenberg, Cristina ^b   St Clair, Samuel B ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Cover change; Genetics; Herbivory; Populus tremuloides; Social science

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; COVER CHANGE; GENETICS; HERBIVORY; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERBIVORY; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; LANDSCAPE; LIVESTOCK FARMING; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SUSTAINABILITY; UNGULATE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; UNGULATA;

EID: 84878125454     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.11.008     Document Type: Article

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