Insect-induced tree mortality of boreal forests in eastern Canada under a changing climate

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2384-2394

  Zhang, Xiongqing ^a,b   Lei, Yuancai ^b   Ma, Zhihai ^a   Kneeshaw, Dan ^a   Peng, Changhui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon dynamics; Climate change; Eastern Canada's boreal forest; Forest insect; Spruce budworm; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902507633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.988     Document Type: Article

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