Altered dynamics of forest recovery under a changing climate

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2001-2021

  Anderson Teixeira, Kristina J ^a,b   Miller, Adam D ^c   Mohan, Jacqueline E ^d   Hudiburg, Tara W ^c   Duval, Benjamin D ^e   DeLucia, Evan H ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e U S DAIRY FORAGE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Climate feedback; FACE; Irrigation; Regime shift; Succession; Throughfall manipulation; Warming

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; IRRIGATION; REGENERATION; THROUGHFALL;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

EID: 84878641406     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12194     Document Type: Review

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