The rise of the mediocre forest: Why chronically stressed trees may better survive extreme episodic climate variability

New Forests

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 403-415

  McNulty, Steven G ^a   Boggs, Johnny L ^a   Sun, Ge ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Anthropogenic climate change; Chronic; Episodic stress; Forest; Genetics; Inverse stress; Stress; Tree

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; CLIMATE CHANGE; NUTRIENTS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RESINS; STRESSES;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CHRONIC; FOREST; GENETICS; TREE;

FORESTRY;

CHROMOSOMES; DISEASES; FORESTRY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUTRIENTS; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84899968910     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-014-9410-3     Document Type: Article

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