Drought induced decline could portend widespread pine mortality at the xeric ecotone in managed mediterranean pine-oak woodlands

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 320, Issue , 2014, Pages 70-82

  Gea Izquierdo, Guillermo ^a,b   Viguera, Bárbara ^a   Cabrera, Miguel ^c   Cañellas, Isabel ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c Aranzada Gesti n Forestal   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dendroecology; Global change; Pinus sylvestris; Quercus pyrenaica; Vulnerability to water stress

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MOISTURE;

DENDROECOLOGY; GLOBAL CHANGE; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS PYRENAICA; WATER STRESS;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOTONE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; MORTALITY; VULNERABILITY; WOODLAND;

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUERCUS PYRENAICA; SEASONAL VARIATION;

SPAIN;

EID: 84896282277     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.025     Document Type: Article

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