Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2531-2539

  Brzostek, Edward R ^a   Dragoni, Danilo ^a   Schmid, Hans Peter ^b   Rahman, Abdullah F ^a   Sims, Daniel ^a   Wayson, Craig A ^c   Johnson, Daniel J ^a   Phillips, Richard P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c USDA Forest Service International Programs SilvaCarbon   (Peru)

Author keywords

Carbon storage; Deciduous hardwood forests; Phenology; Tree growth; Water stress

Indexed keywords

BIOME; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; DROUGHT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; NITROGEN; PHENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATE FOREST; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER STRESS;

UNITED STATES;

SOIL; WATER;

ANGIOSPERM; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SOIL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANGIOSPERMS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FORESTS; INDIANA; SOIL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TREES; WATER;

EID: 84903780036     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12528     Document Type: Article

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