Diverse responses of forest growth to drought time-scales in the Northern Hemisphere

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1019-1030

  Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^a   Camarero, J Julio ^a,b   Azorin Molina, Cesar ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aridity; Climate warming; Dendroecology; Drought index; Forest vulnerability; Radial growth; Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROECOLOGY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84905917452     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12183     Document Type: Article

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