Forest performance during two consecutive drought periods: Diverging long-term trends and short-term responses along a climatic gradient

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 310, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-9

  Dorman, Michael ^a   Svoray, Tal ^a   Perevolotsky, Avi ^b   Sarris, Dimitrios ^c,d,e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Drought response; Landsat; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Pinus halepensis; Spatial interpolation

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT RESPONSE; LANDSAT; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PINUS HALEPENSIS; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

RAIN;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RESPONSE; NDVI; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; WATER AVAILABILITY;

DROUGHT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PINUS HALEPENSIS; RAIN; SATELLITES; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ISRAEL;

EID: 84883545578     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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