Beyond mean functional traits: Influence of functional trait profiles on forest structure, production, and mortality across the eastern US

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 328, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-9

  Russell, Matthew B ^a   Woodall, Christopher W ^b   D'Amato, Anthony W ^a   Domke, Grant M ^b   Saatchi, Sassan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Drought tolerance; Flood tolerance; Shade tolerance; Volume; Wood density

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; BIOMASS; DECISION TREES; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DROUGHT TOLERANCES; ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES; PERMANENT SAMPLE PLOTS; SHADE TOLERANCE; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; VOLUME; WOOD DENSITY;

FORESTRY;

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84901913970     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.05.014     Document Type: Article

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