Tree mortality froma short-duration freezing event and global-change-type drought in a Southwestern piñon-juniper woodland, USA

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Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Poulos, Helen M ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big bend national park; Drought; Freeze thaw cycles; Global change; Pi on juniper woodlands; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY DENSITY; DROUGHT; FOREST; FREEZING; GLOBAL CHANGE; JUNIPERUS DEPPEANA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PINE; PINUS CEMBROIDES; PLANT ECOLOGY; QUERCUS EMORYI; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEEDLING; SPECIES; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE; TREE DENSITY; TREE MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84903840801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.404     Document Type: Article

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