Slow lifelong growth predisposes Populus tremuloides trees to mortality

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 847-859

  Ireland, Kathryn B ^a   Moore, Margaret M ^b   Fulé, Peter Z ^b   Zegler, Thomas J ^b   Keane, Robert E ^c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Decline; Dendroecology; Growth pattern; Populus tremuloides; Quaking aspen; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DIEBACK; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY RISK; POPULATION DECLINE; TREE RING;

UNITED STATES;

POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; POPULUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84902842880     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2951-5     Document Type: Article

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