Faster growth in warmer winters for large trees in a Mediterranean-climate ecosystem

Climatic Change

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 215-224

  Bigelow, Seth W ^a,d   Papaik, Michael J ^a   Caum, Caroline ^b   North, Malcolm P ^a,c  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Forest Adaptation Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA SPOTTED OWLS; INDIRECT EFFECTS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MINIMUM TEMPERATURES; MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS; SENSITIVE SPECIES; SPRING TEMPERATURES; SUMMER TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE RESISTANCE;

FORESTRY;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RAPTOR; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WEATHER STATION;

ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE RESISTANCE; FORESTRY;

CALIFORNIA; CASCADE RANGE; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84896734785     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1060-0     Document Type: Article

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