Disturbance legacies and climate jointly drive tree growth and mortality in an intensively studied boreal forest

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 216-227

  Bond Lamberty, Ben ^a   Rocha, Adrian V ^b   Calvin, Katherine ^a   Holmes, Bruce ^c   Wang, Chuankuan ^d   Goulden, Michael L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c Manitoba Conservation   (Canada)

^d NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Carbon cycling; Climate change; Dendrology; Disturbance; Forest mortality; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

CANADA;

PICEA MARIANA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SPRUCE; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

ALGORITHMS; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; MANITOBA; PICEA; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84889671051     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12404     Document Type: Article

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