The precedents and the responses of trees to extreme droughts reveal the processes involved in the die-off of Mediterranean conifer forests;Los precedentes y las respuestas de los árboles a sequías extremas revelan los procesos involucrados en el decaimiento de bosques mediterráneos de coníferas

Ecosistemas

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 22-30

  Camarero, J J ^a   Barreda, G Sangüesa ^b   Alla, A Q ^b,c   de Andrés, E González ^b   Martínez, M Maestro ^b   Vicente Serrano, S M ^b  

^a FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Defoliation; Dendroecology; Drought index; Extreme event; Mortality; Non structural carbohydrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905015212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16972473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7818/ECOS.2012.21-3.04     Document Type: Article

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