Modeling patterns between drought and tree biomass growth from dendrochronological data: A multilevel approach

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 178-179, Issue , 2013, Pages 140-151

  Lara, W ^a,b,c   Bravo, F ^a,b   Maguire, D A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b Dpto Producción Vegetal y Recursos Forestales   (Spain)

^c Research Center on Ecosystems and Global Change   (Colombia)

^d Resources and Management ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aridity Index; Growth equation; Linear mixed model; Mantel correlogram; P. pinaster; P. sylvestris.; Walter Lieth Climate Diagram

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARIDITY; BIOMASS; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; GROWTH RATE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TREE RING; VULNERABILITY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SPAIN;

EID: 84880352194     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.04.017     Document Type: Article

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