Tree recruitment in relation to climate and fire in northern Mexico

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 197-209

  Meunier, Jed ^c   Brown, Peter M ^b   Romme, William H ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; Climate; Fire history; Mexico; Recruitment; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DISTURBANCE; DROUGHT STRESS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LAND USE CHANGE; MORTALITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTION; TREE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME; TREE;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; MEXICO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84893214911     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0032.1     Document Type: Article

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