Future impacts of nitrogen deposition and climate change scenarios on forest crown defoliation

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 194, Issue , 2014, Pages 171-180

  De Marco, Alessandra ^a   Proietti, Chiara ^b   Cionni, Irene ^a   Fischer, Richard ^c   Screpanti, Augusto ^a   Vitale, Marcello ^b  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate change; Crown defoliation; General regression models; Nitrogen deposition; Random forests analysis

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION EFFECTS; ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING; CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CROWN DEFOLIATION; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROGEN FERTILIZATION; RANDOM FORESTS; REGRESSION MODEL;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

NITROGEN; AIR POLLUTANT;

ACIDIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFOLIATION; FOREST COVER; NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BETULA PENDULA; BETULACEAE; CARPINUS BETULUS; CASTANEA SATIVA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFOLIATION; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FAGACEAE; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FOREST CROWN DEFOLIATION; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NORWAY SPRUCE; OLEACEAE; PINACEAE; PINUS NIGRA; PREDICTION; QUERCUS ILEX; QUERCUS PETRAEA; QUERCUS PUBESCENS; QUERCUS ROBUR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCOTS PINE; STATISTICAL MODEL; AIR POLLUTANT; DRUG EFFECTS; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; TREE;

AIR POLLUTION; DEPOSITION; FORESTRY; NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; FORESTS; NITROGEN; TREES;

EID: 84906095090     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.07.027     Document Type: Article

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