Growth-mortality relationships in piñon pine (Pinus edulis) during severe droughts of the past century: Shifting processes in space and time

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Macalady, Alison K ^a   Bugmann, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH RATE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PINE; PINUS EDULIS; PLANT GROWTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; RISK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; TREE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DROUGHTS; INSECTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PINUS; RISK; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 84900440488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092770     Document Type: Article

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